WILFERT'S WINTER SEEDLING APPLE. 



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WILFERT'S WINTER SEEDLING APPLE. 



ANDREW WILFERT, CI^EVELAND. 



It is an all winter apple, in quality equal to the Belleflower. It 

 is a seedling of the Ben Davis, but the shape of the apple and the hol- 

 low core indicates that it is a cross between a Ben Davis and a 

 Belleflower. The tree when young is an upright, vigorous grower, 

 but after raising several crops of apples, from having such heavy 

 loads to carry, the top becomes spreading, which gives the trees a 

 fine appearance. The seed from which this tree was grown was 

 planted in spring of 1866. It was never known to blight nor be in- 

 jured by the cold winters in thirty-five years. The original tree 

 was destroyed when twenty years old by hogs undermining it. There 

 are six trees in existence that the originator knows of, that were 

 grafted in 1880, and they are considerably larger than Wealthy trees 

 that were set out at the same time. 



WII^FERT'S WINTER SEEDX,ING. 



