Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-03-29
APPLES sEEDLESs.

Propagation Declares They'll do More
for World Than Horseless Carriage.
The first seedlass apples to be
brought to New York are on exhibi.
ton in Park place Mr.. ste.nhardt of
Steinharit & Kelly recently returned
from the Spencer Seedless Apple farm
at Grand Junction Col with about a
bushel. He announced upon arrival
here that the apples we've not only
coreless and seedless, but priceless.
Mr.. Steinhardt says that the seedless
apple is going to do more for the world
than the horseless carriage or the wire.
less telegraph. He is something of an
authority on seedless fruit, because he
is in the wholesale business and is al.
ways on the lookout for something new
for the exclusive hotel trade.
When Mr. Steinhardt was out in Cal
ifornia on a seedless grape fruit hunt
he heard that John f. Spencer of
Grand Junction, Col, had shown a few
seedless apples at the St. Louis fair
He made tracks for the scene of the
propagation AMI landed a few-enough
~ bAtliS betNh anu SlOW lllC 4cdutuG
men Of the wholesale fruit district.
To the fruit trade Mr.. Spencers ex.
periments are not new He has been
working on the seedless apple problem
ever since the seedIess orange appear
ed in the market Several years ago
he succeeded in getting five trees TINT
bore seedless apples, and from these
these trees have been budded 1000
trees which now constitute the Spen.
Ger seedless apple stock of the world.
The new tree has a hard, smooth
bark, and is capable of growing in any
climate. In the development of the
seedless tree, a blossomless tree has
also been developed. There is a
stamen and a very small quantity of
pollen, as in the blossom of the ordi-
nary tree. Thus the cold and frosts
have not the effect on the development
of this apple as on the development
of the common apple. And the apple
grower who has the seedless apple
trees is not worried over late frpsts
that now denude his orchards
One of the striking peculiarities ~
the new tree is this lack of blossoms.
The only thing that resembles a bios
som comes in the form of several
small green leaves that grow around
the little apple and shelter it. A sec
ond view of this little green apple
shows even as much a difference from
he ordinary apple bud as is shown in a
sectional view of the ripened fruit.
The lack of blossoms makes it al.
most impossible for the coddliug moth
to deposit its eggs, and therefore in
sures practically a worthless apple 1t
is a scientific fact that the worms in
apples live on The seeds, and there be-
ing no seod there is nothing to sustain
the worm, even though it should be
batched out
The apple very much resembles the
seedless orange in that the meat is
solid and Their is a selightly hardened
substance at the naval end. This has
almot disappeared in the orange, how
ever. and it is much less noticeable in
The apples on the last generation OF
trees now in the company's orchard
than in the first apples secured by Mr..
Spencer Everything indicates that
it will grow smaller with successive
generations as the naval end of the
orange has grown smaller.
In color the apple is a dark red with
yellow strawberry dots, is strictly a
winter variety, compares favorably
with the Winesap, in flavor, and is a
better keeper and shipper than the
Ben Davis.
Experiments are now under way by
Mr.. Spencer, through which he hopes
10 develop seedless varieties of the
various leading apples on the market,
such as the Winesap, Jonathan, Cana
and RnllhnNpr etc