344 State Horticultural Society. 



lar variety with tlie German, Briton and Yankee, the Red Astrachan 

 coming next and having the most extended area of cultivation of any 

 known variety of apples. 



Schoolcraft, in his report on the Iroquois, states that on the first 

 introduction of the apple in New York, these tribes were captivated by 

 its taste and lost no time to transplant it by sowing seeds about their 

 ancient castles. , 



The pioneer who first introduced apples into Ohio and Indiana was 

 Jonathan Chapman, more commonly known as Johnnie Appleseed, who. 

 In his wanderings on the frontier of civilization, planted apple seeds in 

 places that he cleared in the- forest, from which the larger part of the 

 trees of the first orchards planted in this section came. 



• The real apple-grow'ing region of this country, it was claimed only 

 a few years ago, was only about 600 miles from north to south and 

 .1,500 from east to west; this fixed the western limit of profitable apple 

 cultivation as middle Kansas. Within the two last decades apple orchards 

 have been made to flourish where it was thought impossible to make 

 them live, and are now cultivated from Florida to Alaska. At Sitka 

 they bloom in June, but seldom perfect their fruit. 



Colorado has within her borders 99,000 acres planted to apple or- 

 chards. 



Orchards are found in Utah, New ^Mexico, Idaho and Montana; 

 the last named boasts of orchards containing from 60,000 to 100,000 trees. 

 Marcus Daly in his day owned one in that State that contained 60,000 

 trees. 



California and Oregon in 1890, each had over one and one-fourth 

 millions of bearing apple trees, whose fruit competes in the markets of 

 Europe with our eastern grown apples. 



According to the census of 1890. the United States had over 120,- 

 000,000 of bearing apple trees, and since then has produced in a single 

 season over 69,000,000 barrels of apples, and shipped to England 3,000,000 

 barrels. 



In cold storage we carry each year from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 

 barrels of apples. Ships especially fitted for carrying apples weigh 

 anchor from New York and Boston for Europe, laden with this fruit. 



The exporting of apples has grown with such rapidity it has be- 

 come one of our leading exports, and bids fair to rank as the greatest 

 fruit crop of the world. 



"The fruitage of the apple tvee, 

 Winds, and our flag of stripes and stars 

 Shall bear to coasts that lie afar. 

 Where men shall wonder at the view. 



