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destroyed the fruit throughout the entire re.f^ion where this tree was growing, 

 it produced a full half crop of apples. This circumstance gave additional 

 notoriety to the tree and fruit, and scions were sought for grafting. 



The writer of this, who obtained his first trees of the Grimes' Golden apple 

 in 1838, visited the original tree, June 24th, 1879, and found it in a very good 

 state of preservation, with a fair crop of fruit evenly set over its branches. 

 The tree is about 30 feet in height, and measures G feet around the trunk 

 2 feet from the ground. Its branches cover an area of 30 feet in diameter. 

 Although not a very large tree, it has frequently produced between 50 and 100 

 bushels of fine marketable apples in a season. Soon after the original tree 

 came into bearing, the fruit was called the Grimes' apple, and some time later 

 the Grimes' Pippin. After the late Samuel Wood, a noted nurseryman of 

 Jefferson county, 0., commenced propagating it, he added the word golden, 

 calling it *' Grimes' Golden Pippin." Although it is a legitimate member of 

 the pippin family of apples, at the annual meeting of the Ohio Pomological 

 Society, in 1866, the word pippin was dropped ; since which time it has been 

 known as *•' Grimes' Golden," and tliis name is now well established. 



The tree is a strong, upright, spreading, open, rapid grower, very handsome 

 in form, and needs little pruning ; wood very hard and tough ; bark dark 

 greenish brown; foliage large, dark green and very abundant. The tree is an 

 annual bearer, and sets its fruit evenly over the branches. The fruit is very 

 smooth ; size medium ; form oblong oblate, sometimes a little angling at the 

 crown; color light green, with numerous minute light dots when taken from 

 the tree, but becoming a rich golden yellow when ripe ; basin abrupt, tolerably 

 deep, round and smooth ; calyx large and open ; stem long and slender ; cavity 

 deep and regular; core small and closed; seeds numerous, plump and dark 

 brown ; flesh yellow, very fine-grained, breaking and juicy ; flavor slightly sub- 

 acid, aromatic, rich and uprightly ; use, dessert and culinary ; season October 

 to April; quality best. — G, F. jS\, in Country Gentleman. 



IS THE BUSINESS OF APPLE GROWIXG OVERDONE IN THIS STATE? 



Hon. F. M. Ilolloway of Hillsdale, answered this question at a Farmej's' 

 gathering, as follows : 



I am called upon to express my views before this Institute, on a very simple 

 question in the abstract, yet carefully considered in all its relations to the farm, 

 to humanity, that constitutes our population, it becomes one of the most 

 interesting subjects before us, and should receive careful consideration by us 

 in determining the right, and when so done, we should not fail to put the 

 right in practice. The question, apple-growing, is it over done? must be 

 answered by us in the negative with a firm and positive protest, as to the man- 

 aier in which it is done, and a further protest as to tlie results or profits on the 

 amount invested in apple growing as a branch of mixed farming. There arc 

 nearly 5,000 plantations of apple orchards in this county alone, not counting 

 the number of garden orchards in the cities and villages. Many of them were 

 of early origin and embrace but a small proportion of the better varieties of 

 fruit. They have stood a continual cropping for the last 25 years, and in 

 that length of time there has been but one or two years, at most, but what 

 tthere has been a ready market for the fruit, with paying profits for raising. 



