Coreless Apples.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 282, 2 December 1904, Page 4

Coreless Apples.

THE COMING OF A WONDERFUL NEW FRUIT. The wonderful seedless apple tree haa now been put upon the market, over ten nnrsenes having been devoted to its propagation in the United States and Canada. The tree gives promise of completely revolutionising the apple-growing industries of the old and now worlds. The value of the coreiess apple to the housewife is at omco apparent. The trees are almost 'tjrossomless «o that they have little to fear from spring frosts. The annual loss to the fruit-growers of the world from late frosts and Codlin math cannot be less than £5,000,000, but by the introductioni of the new apples this will be prevented. The absence of seed makes the fruit wormless, because the voracious apple worm lives on the seed. The trees of the famous seedless orange now used to supply the American and English markets came ori- . ginally from six cuttings. The star*) with the seedless apple has' beea made on a far more extensive scale —2OOO trees—so that in a few years immense stocks will be available. There are something like 20,000,000 apple trees in the United Kingdom. Of these over 10,000,000 consist of old and useless varieties, and their owners will not lie affected by the arrival of the coreiess apple tree. Specimens of the new fruit may be expected i n England this year. Already orders for trees are pouring in from all quarters, and several British fruit-tree propagators arc anxious to control the sale in this country. When the first fruits enter our poits the public may have the privilege of inspecting the coreiess apples in tliu windows of leading. West End fruiterers under glass cases. The first seedless oranges brought one and sixpence each ; the first coreiess apples may command half a crown.—Daily Mail.