Coreless Apples

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1162, 5 December 1904, Page 2

Coreless Apples

The wonderful soodloss apple tree, says tlw Daily Mail, has now been put upon the market, ovor ion nurseries having boon do. voted to its propagation in tlio United' btntca aifjii Canada, The troe gives promise of completely rbvolutionising tno appiogrowing industries of the old and now worlds. Tlio vfthe of tho coroloss npplo to tlio honsowifn is at oneo apparent. Tho trers nro almost blooinL-ss, so that they Imvo littlu ro fenr from spring- frosts, llio annual lofa to the fmiigrowors of the world from the Into fmsts and codlin moth enanot bo less than *5,000,000, but by the introduction of tlio now apples thu will bo prevented, Tho nbsenco of seed makes ' woruiless, becnuso tho voracious appio worm lives on tho seed. Tho trees of tho f \uious seed orange now used to supply the Amorioan and Jinglish markets camo originally from six cutting?, Tlio start with the soodleas apple has been on a f tir , Uo r 6 cxtensivo scale—with 2000 treas-so .natin afow years imineneo stocks will bo available. There are now something like 20,000 000 appio trees in tho United Kingdom. ' Of theso oyer 10,000,000 consist of old and useless varieties, and their owners will not be atjected by tho arrival of tho coreless appio tree.

bpocimons of the new fruit may be expectedin England this year. Already orders for trees aro pouring in from ail quarters, and several British fruittree propagators are anxious to control the' sale in that country,