The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-01


 acres of some of the richest and most productive land in the world In that sense the coming of the coreless apple would do untold good to many land owners, cultiyators and public eonsum- CTS combined.
 Why should We not possess a core less and seedless apple, since the seed less orange is unquestionably the lar gest, most expensive and best fruit of its class obtainabIe? The new apple, which is both eoreless and seedless, was introduced by an old fruit raiser. For twelve years he experimented to obtain the fruit. As the result of seek ing to secure the seedless apple, blos- somless tree has been developed. 1t bears a stamen and very small quan- tity of pollen. The importance of such developments is apparent Tie cold spells do not affect the fruit, and the apple grower has little to fear from late spring frosts. which in most years do much harm on the fruit farm.
 'The tree is described as blossomless. sthe only thing resembling a blossom being a small cluster of tiny green leaves which grow around the newly formed apple, and shelter it. Being devoid of blossoms, it is claimed that the. fruit offers no effective hiding place in which the codlin foth may lay it's eggs, which it usually does in the open eye of the fruit. The .devasta- tions of the eadlin moth are So exten- sive that in the aggregate they cause losses in Great Britain, on the eenti- nent and in the United States exceed ing five million dollars a year. In some English countries I have known
 the apple crop to be reduced by over fifty per cent. by the voraeious brub of this pest. I am not ill strict agreement with the producer of the new apple when he claims absolute immunity from the rayage of the eodlin moth on account of the lack of blossoms making it almost impossible for the pest to de posit it's. eggs in the eye of the apple. Tn my tests I proved conclusively that the eggs are sometimes laid on the skin of the apple also. But with no petals ing the grub could readily be destroyed.
 In the plantations where the coreless
 apple trees have been grown no eodlin moth has made it's appearance. It is
 said that so long as they are isolated from seedy apple trees there is no pos sfbility of the moth attaching itself to them, there being nothing in the way of perfume or flower to attract it.
 "The color of the new apple is red, Haffad tN,iyI eIr; Ae, with the seeded apple, so with the seedless apple, a slightly hardened substance makes its appearance at the navel end. But this can be obliterated by culture. The originator of the core less apple states that the further w. get away from the original five trees the larger and better the fruits become in every way. Whether the Spencer seedless apple is actually seed proof time alone can prove. As the result of tests, it has been found absolutely i'm possible for the coreless apple trees to bearfruits that have seeds in them that is. of their own accord. Still when grown in the vicinity or ordinary apple trees, with their branches interlocked with one another, a small percentage of the coreless trees have sometimes produced two or three seeds though ! they are just as apt to be found near the skin of the fruit as in the center of | 1t. A seed has been found within one eighth of an inch of the ripd. right away from the core or the core lines. These fortuitous seeds owe their. ori- gin to the transferrence of the pollen from the blossoms of the seedy apple trees to the stigma of the coreless ap. pie tree. Whether carried by wind or bees, when the pollen is deposited in this way there is the possibility that9a few seeds may here and there result, but it cannot be said thaA necessarily the seed or seeds will be about the tube or even near it. ; sThe appearance of one single varfe. l ty of seedless apple cannot seriously | affect the skilled commercial apple growers of the world. If the introdu.
 cer of the new fruit can develop seed.
 less varieties of the various leading ap, I