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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 111, 8 February 1928, Page 5

Only about one-eighth of the passenger revenue of the British railway companies is derived from first-class fares. A robin last year laid five eggs in a nest built in the folds of a mackintosh hung in an apple tree in Cumberland. Extolling the Celo apple, a Motueka production (Mr. C. Lowe), the “New Zealand Smallholder” says, to start with, it has travelled well, sold well in Britain, and won a place on the Government export list. Its parentage (Stnrmer-Delicious) is portentous. It is being worked into Nelson orchards, and even into some at Whangarei, and at Kaukapakapa (Mr. Cole’s). It has the Stunner shape with some of the conical form of tho Delicious, and also a rich red blush from its Delicious ancestry. It is free from russet. The tree follows the Stunner outline and free spur-bearing habit and great fruitfulness. While it is yet early to dogmatise on the fickle little point the magazine says it has yet shown no sign of the Delicious apple’s self-sterility. It adds: “The fruit itself is of high quality. It is aromatic but not nearly so much as Delicious. This is an advantage when wo reflect that aroma is something given off—in other words, the flavoiir is departing. For excessive prodigality in that respect note the Gravenstein. It is full of flavour, as we all know, but it is so generous with it tliat it son saturates tho air of a shed, and that is so much loss of quality, even if tho scales cannot detect it. Cole is slightly subacid—between the acidity of the Gravenstein and the sweetness of the Delicious. You know how good a Gravenstein is while it io still only half-way up to your mouth. You do Tiot know how good a Celo is till you bite it. For export its latest official date for acceptance is May 3.