Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-03-10
NOW coRELEss APPLE

NOW cORELEss APPLE.
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After Years Of Expsriment . New
Sesdlsss Fruit Has Been Produced.
The coreless apple has been pro-
duced and 1t is full of possibilities.
The new fruit is regarded as "the
worlds greatest discovery in horticui-
ture," says q writer in the Nineteenth
Century and After, and In fruit-grow
ing circles Is called 'sthe wonder Of the
age"
Its iaver is beyond question II IL
proves as large as its rivals trees pro-
ducfng the new wonder, which Is
winter variety, will be planted by the
million in the commercial fruit fields
at home and abroad. There is little
likelihood Of its impeding the profta-
BILE sale Of ordinary apples of high
grade.
The new apple, which is both core
less and seedless, was introduced by
an old fruit raiser: For twelve years
he experimental to obtain the fruit
The tree Is described as blossom
less, the only thing resembling a bios
som being a small cluster OF tiny
green leaves which grow around the
newly formed apple and shelter it Be
Ing devoid OF blossoms, it is claimed
that the fruit offers no effective hiding
place In which the Goblin moth may
lay its eggs, which 1t usually does In
the open eye Of the fruit Moreover.
there IL nothing to fear from frosts
The color Of the new apple is red,
dotted with yellow on the skin As
with the seedless orange, 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 1--WE
get from the original FIVE trees the
larger and better the fruits become In
every way"
Apple culture Is more important
even than orange culture In the Uni
ted States there are 20O. 1000, 900 apple
trees In bearing, from which 0,OO0,-
600 bushels Of fruit are annually har-
vested. In ten years these three will
give yield Of 4Oo, ,0oO, 900 bushels.
At the present time the apple CON
sumption Of the United States is eighty
pounds head of the population year.
By busheI measure the American ap-
pie crop Is four times greater than the
entire wheat yield of Great Britain
and Ireland.
Billions Of apple trees are grown in
the orchards Of the world, and millions
Of them are still being planted each
year. The apple imports Of Great
Britain alone range between 4,5e0, GOO
and 100000 hundredweight. In ad-
didon, the writer estimates the census
of our apple trees at 2O,O0000O.
There, are now 1900 Of these core
less apple trees available for propaga-
ton to supply the orchards Of the
world It is estimated that by 1905
100000 Of these trees will be put up
on the market
The Spencer apple is not the first
seedless apple that has been grown.
During the last sixty years about half
their appearance. But in no instance
was it found possible to reproduce
trees from them which would bear
seedless apples.
Though NO blossom is at any time
visible on the Spencer seedless apple
trees, when budded or grated they In
sure trees that will produce coreless
| apples. They are great bearers and
crop freely in any country where the
ordinary apple tree win fruit.
In 1925 Able D. Dupuy, professor
Of natural history at Auch, drew atten-
tion 10 the Bon Chretien d'Auch pear,
which produced fruit without seeds,
though when removed to another 10
, cality the seeds reappeared In the fruit
> in the usual way. This fact up to
that period had led the fruit-tree dis
tributers to treat the pear In one local
ity as the Bon Chretin d'Auch and in
, another district is the Winter Bon
Chretin. But the Spencer apple re,
mains seedless in any soil.
D The coreless apple will produce az
e great sensation when brought before
' the public as the seedless orange did q
e few years ago. The orange is lux.
e ury; the aromatic apple has become an
s absolute necessity.
Chinese Food.
A German epicure comes to the res
u ono of tho Chinese in repard to thaiy