CRANBERRY CULTURE. 303 
The Massachusetts or Cape Cod barrel is slightly different, being 
16x1734x261% inches inside measure, and must contain 100 quarts. 
The Wisconsin (legal) or western crate is 22x12x7% inches, inside 
measure, and must be branded. The Cape Cod crate, in use also in Can- 
necticut, Maine and New Jersey, is of the same dimensions. 
THE WEALTHY. 
EUGENE SECOR, FOREST CITY, IOWA. 
Nature is ever generous of common things but parsimonious with her 
treasures. Hundreds of millions of plain, everyday people have been 
created, but only one Shakespeare. Millions of tons of coal are found for 
every diamond brought to light. Thousands of bushels of apple seeds have 
been planted, but only one Wealthy. 
About thirty-five years ago, Peter M. Gideon, of Minnesota, obtained a 
lot of apple seeds from Bangor, Maine. He said that in the lot was one 
package marked “Cherry crab.” From the package so marked he says he 
produced the Wealthy. 
It is the greatest pomological acquisition for the northwest ever dis- 
seminated. For northern Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin it is worth more 
than all the foreign importations yet made, for it is not only valuable be- 
cause of its own merits but for the hope which it inspires. 
What Gideon has done in the production of this incomparable apple has 
lead and will lead thousands of others to renewed and hopeful effort to pro- 
duce an apple of equal quality which shall prove to be a better keeper. The 
more it has been tried, the more valuable it is considered. 
A. J. Philips, secretary of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society, says: 
“As a business, all round apple, tree and fruit, the Wealthy discounts by 
odds in money and satisfaction any apple that ever put in an appearance 
north of the Iowa and Minnesota state line.” 
It may not be needed south of latitude forty-two, but north of that it 
has been a Godsend. 
_ According to the report of our secretary, sent out last June, the Wealthy 
stands with Oldenberg and Northwestern Greening in hardiness, under the 
severe test of last winter. 
The Wisconsin Experiment Station issued a bulletin on the effect of 
last winter upon different varieties of apple trees, and the Wealthy headed 
the list of trees reported least injured. 
It is an early bearer of good sized, handsome, red fruit, of finer flavor 
and higher quality than any other apple grown in the northwest. It is one 
of the best sellers ever put upon the market. There is more money in it 
than in any other variety grown north of the parallel mentioned. Although 
regarded as a fall apple, it keeps well in cold storage and is a money maker 
when taken out. It is a monument to its originator more enduring than 
marble. It is a distinct addition to the sum of the world’s blessings, and its 
discoverer will forever be remembered as a public benefactor. 
O ruddy-cheeked apple, when kissed by the sun 
Till ye blush with a beauty divine, 
.With flavor distilled from the mildness of June, 
What a heavenly mission is thine! 
The sour, hardy Duchess, the best of its race, 
Was a boon until thou wert made known; 
But beauty and quality in thee embrace, 
And our tastes have improved where thou’rt grown. 
