The daily sentinel., 1905-11-16
Spencer SeedIeSS Apple

The Spencer seedless Apple COM
pany desired to do some considerable .
advertising in the Orange Judd pub I
lications and application was made .
10 the officers of the company in New
York by Manager W. G. Scheu. now
in New York.
cardinal principle of the Orange
Judd publications is to accept no ad-
yertisement thar has any suggestion
Of being questionable OF being for the
purpose Of imposing upon the public
a fake, in any form or by any means.
through an advertisement in their
publications In order to be sure of
their ground they decided to send one
OF the best horticulturalists in all the
west to this city. to the home of the
parent company and where the first
apple was grown, known as The Spen-
Ger Seedless apple, to make person
al Investigation of the matter. That
individual was w. F. Crowley. whose
Integrity is unquestionahle through
out all the west as an horticultural eX-
pert Mr. Crowley came TO Grand
Junction and was taken to the Spen-
Ger orchard aud made personal eX-
animation of the original trees, eat
ing the seedless apple therefrom and
was afterward given every oppor-
tunity to examine the financial and
individual backing OF the company
and heir growing seedless apple trees
with the following result. made in
report to the Montrose Press and
which has been filed with the Orange
Judd publications with the result
that. The Spencer Seedless Apple
company has made heavy adver-
tising contract with those publica-
lions
Certainly the combined nursery
companies. which have been foiled
at every turn in backcapping the
seedless apple will now lay down and
stop their nefarious work.
Mr.. Crowley's article is as FOL
lows;
To The Press; In response TO
your request for the facts regarding
I the Spencer seedless apple as result
Z OF my recent Investigation OF the
I same. ! herewith presen. you 4 sam
pln Of the fruit and a few ot the
chl-y features of the proposition.
The apple is praeticall.' seedloss
I aud Coreless. Occasional specimens
have seeds like other varieties. Mr..
( e. /. Green. secretary of the Spencer
I seedless Apple company, and a nur-
seryman of considerable experience,
holds to the theory that these seeds
are the result of cross fertilization in
/ cases where the imperfect blossoms
OF the seedless apple receive the pol
I len from blossoms of other Vartet-
. les on adjacent trees. In all our seed
less fruits. notably the naval oranges.
I THOMPSON seedless and the seed
less Sultana grapes. seeds occur in
some specimens. At times the seeds
are but partially formed and at other
times they are of fun size and per
feet. The same thing occurs in the
seedless apple and this fact mas leu
to much unfavorable comment in the
various newspapers that nave given
the matter attention.
The people who are exploiting the
seedless apple at first made some
rather ridiculous claims for it, which
have reverted to their detriment. the
worst of these was the claim that the
annie having no perfect blossom
would be immune from the attacks
of the Goblin moth. The tallacy OF
this claim was patent at once TO any
well-informed horticultural ana II
has since been eliminated from an
literature sent out.
Seedless apples have been common
all through apple history. but none
have been brought to light which VIII
annroach the Spencer seedless in quail
ity and size. ,,...
If is an apple of better quality
than the Ben Davis, but not equal 70
the Winesap. In size It cohnphIva
yvfth the Jonathan. being little
larger than the Jeniten which 1t some
what resembles in color and shape,
II is more highly colored than tne
Jonathan, but has speek on the
skin quite similar -. ts the
The worst fault of the apple Is 'hS
in
eeedless APPLES has "A sort OF dounle
ealvx. In some specimens this iault
is missing. the blossom end beins
allied ont equal to any of the best va
rieties But at the present time
would regard IL as novelty anohs
frnits Far from being a rank rake
I ,votIId pronounce it a valuable ac-
auisition TO the list of new varieties
/; and something which every planter
will be glad to have at least TWO OF
three trees. c.,o,.,do y
Another fact of interest to Colorado
people who read the syndi1ate ssds nem1
: paper stories now going tne rouuNa nnal
In which the seedless apple propo-
sition is denounced as a stock-1obDihs
, scheme with nothing behind u, E Eis
. Inc class of people who own STOCK III
tbe COMPANY and who have lent thell
suDport to the various conlpanles
which are growing some 2,OOU,VOV OF
tba trees for delivery in the fall OF
r. 1905 and spring of 1907. Amohs
, them are b. p. Blair, register OF tne
n ( Land Office at Montrose' l. y
Runting. editor and proprietor OF tne
! Dailv Sentinel and mayor il the towI
of Grand Junction; VIM Bomgardner
: one Of the best known and best IN
, formed fruit growers In the st1le
and who lives near Grand Junctutl,l
and within one-quarter OF mn
Of John f. Spencer, the originaIoi
Of the seedless apple, and others. pc
q sides these ! met dozen or Il1I'
/ other prominent and respectaDl'
! business men Of Grand Junction "h'
arc stockholders in the company
II struck me that so far from pc
! ing n rank fake this is one OF the lev
- i,,stances where the originator oI
naw variety Of fruit will reap the re
$ ward Of his labor ,.,t.ar
Among the hardest knocher
,o,ainst the Colorado proposition nav
= 6sen some OF the large nursery niel
g ,ybo failed to secure stock OF MI
: spencer's apple. In three or lou Iou
r Years time. when the stock mas pee' @
. dIeseminated through the varlou
4 sfafe companies organized Tor INA INA
Il purpose. we will see az the ieau,,i ni,
D.