A RECORD APPLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 6

A RECORD APPLE.

Experts in Australia anticipated that pievailing conditions would mean the production of a line sample of apples this season. . , . ...

Apparently it is also going to lie a re-cord-breaking piriod. Nolk-0 of recent claims by an English orehardisl to have grown tho huge.t apple, in the world brought a rival claim'from the llellingeu district. Particulars were published iu the "Herald" of an upplt' of the "Lord Nelson" variety grown by .Mr. J. Winters, which weighed :- Jto/.. Then Tasmania rushed into the fray, eager to uphold tho prestige til' the lainens apple-growing State, with the story of an apple grown at Ash by Hint weighed lli'oz.. u lilorio. Mniidi. Hellingen's claim "as a i-eeord-breakw'' vanished. New South Wale's, however, is still going strong for the honour of growing the largest apple in the world. The "Herald" received an apple, grown by Mr. J'rank Clarke, Woodside, Ifylslone. which weigh-. 21b. Hoy., li is also a "Lord NoNon." Mr. W. J. Allan, the Government Fruit Expert, advises that the larirest and heaviest specimen id the variety brought under notiro up to the present weighed It was "grown nt Cessnock, near Maitland. li'vlstono is now anxiously awaiting further aspirants for the apple heavyweight contest. The English claimant has been easily outclassed.