The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-11-08
MAKING PATRICK
GREATEST APPLE
COUNTY IN WORLD
Intensive Cultivation Aiding
Nature in Creating Wonder
full Orchards.
HUNDRED THOUSAND
TREES ARE GROWING
Winesaps Grow to Thirteen
Inches and Producing Trees
Make Records The Largest
Trees in the World.

Trees in the World.
Patrick County. Va, which already
has the largest apple tree in the world.
ths largest producing tree in the world.
end which produces the largest Wine
saps. Ia to become the greatest apple
producing county In the world. There
are now growing some hundred thou
sand apple trees in an area covering
1000 acres in the county. six large
Incorporated orchards are producing
apples now from between 5000 and
10000 tfess. and a seventh orchard IL
shortly TO be organised
Patrick County apples are known to
many In Richmond. a. they are known
In all parts Of tho country and the
name Of Patrick County and the word
apple. will. within q few years. be
synonymoua. Patrick County will be
better known than the famous Hood
River country In Oregon. which. be-
cause Of much advertising. has be-
come extensively known.
Pslze Winners EveYywhere.
Everywhere that the Patrick pro-
Duct has been exhibited II has been a
ribbon winner. The quality of the
4kuit fts siza and beauty. perfect.
Patrick County has become noted
throughout the country. even though
tho volume Of the product In not yet
- large ~ II that of certain other
counties in Virginia The fame of
Virginia apples 10 spreading rapidly
. and tho growth OF demand 10 substan-
tial.
Because Of the Increasing popularity
~ the Virginia apple there are now
. few counties in the State enjoyins
greater sales than tbs entire State of
Oregon. with IT'S noted Hood River
section One Of these Virginia ccun
ties 10 Aibenaric. And with the de-
veiopment OF ratrick's natural fertil-
ky through the application Of inten-
size methods to the point now In
uiEht with the hundred thousand trees
already growing, II win be COM
psfativeIy short time before Patrick
County 10 In the lists with greater
production than Oregon. Tho quality
[. Of the Virginia apple 10 superior to
that Of any other aprie. and this fact
/ 10 each year brought nearer home to
| the consumer.
0aee In RicAns.a.
In this direction Patrick County ap-
7 pls growers are doing their share.
rern.anent once Of the Patrick County
| orchards 10 maintained in Richmond,
being located in room 2os Murphy's
Hotel. Representatives OF the coop
erAtinr orchards Of Patrick are to be
times. and during n ,arxe part OF the
gear an exhibit Of Patrick apples 10
made. IN charge Of this Office at the
present time are N. V. stedman and
Colonel Henry c. wysor. OF stuart. Va.
Many Patrick apples are distributed
from this point. large stock being
Kept In the Merchants Cold Stcrs 20
Warehouse In Richmond. Orders NAV
Ns placed with either Mr.. Sted'na~ or
Colonel wysor
The exhibit at MurpNy's Hot at
The present time Is made mp ~ he
eciIowinx varieties: Grimes Golden.
Ronum. Patrick Pippin, also known as
Gloria Munda. the York, Fallowater.
virginia sweetenin9. winesap. Mai
denis Blush and Jonathan. Patrick
trees bear apples marketed In Ave
months Of the year. from June to Oe-
tober, inclusive. These range from the
early summer apple to the more solid
1atsr apple. which may be kept
khroughcut the winter.
The NIX orchards cooperating In
maintaining the Richmond once are
the stuart. the Atwood. the Patrick. the
melton. the Blue Ridge and the Pre-
ntum. A seventh orchard 10 now In
psocsss Of organization.
harvest IN the World.
The biz WinesAps grown In Patrick
c0unty have attracted much atten-
Hon. Many Of the Patrick Winesaps
range from eleven TO thirteen inches
q circumference and number of the
Thirteen Inch anples are now on ex-
sibitfon in washington. The winesar
ordinarily 10 not much LARGER around
go .eyes, or eight inches. Trees hear-
~ winesaps In Patrick County also
produce wonderful quantities. Tits
sea.on = seven-year tree produced
snrteAn bushels. and . ten-year-old
80. thirty Ave busheis
8is, bearing trees that have become
A0ted throughout the world include the
dam treA, more than . hundred wears
IA. which has borne more than soc
usheys at a single crop.
Another great tree n the Handy. the
.rwest snnle tree In the world. The
handy measures six feet IN diameter
seventv-two feet tall and In cap
ME OF giving shelter to thousand
men.
n Patrick County are to be found
orrA 81 the worlds richest coves. the
nti ro,nR 20 . great depth. Tho coun-
~ a. rolling ana nature provides ev-
vvthinE that II necessary. with tn
ersive cultivation by man. for the
reatinx Of the greatest apple district
the world.