MY SEEDLING APPLE. 



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MY SEEDLING APPLE. 



MRS. M. A. KNOWLES, EXCELSIOR. 



In December, 1905, the writer made entry of her seedHng ap- 

 ple, which she has named "Keep-Till-June," in the contest for the 

 $1,000 prize offered by the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. 



Twenty-one years ago, my husband, Mr. J. D. Knowles, and 

 myself, moved onto the little farm of about eight acres, where I 

 have continued to live since his death several years ago, two 

 miles east of Excelsior, where this apple tree stands. 



We found in the orchard an apple sprout, about the size of 

 a man's thumb that had grown from the root of a tree, the graft- 

 ed portion of which was dead. I do not remember the exact date 

 when it began to bear, but I remember that sixteen or more years 

 ago apples from this tree were taken to the winter meeting of 



Specimen of Mrs. Knowles' seedling apple, "Keep-Till-June". 



the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, and that no one seem- 

 ed to know anything about it, although it was thought by some to 

 be a Rollin's Pippin. 



We never kept an exact account of the number of bushels 

 of fruit taken from the tree, for it was gathered and sold with the 

 other fruit. As its name indicates it is a very late keeper; some- 



