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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



WALTER APPLE. 



A new seedling apple of fine appearance and excellent quality, originated 

 by the late P. C Dempsey, of Trenton, Ont., and named Walter, after his son, 

 our experimenter. 



Fruit, large, roundish, one-sided; skin green, suffused and striped with 



bright red ; stem slender, an inch long in a 

 narrow cavity: calyx closed in a narrow 

 Z^rilC"^ ^HM^^^H basin of moderate depth ; core small ; flesh 

 ' ^^^^^^^Ws^. creamy white ; tender, crisp, juicy ; flavor, 

 sub-acid, rich, agreeable, aromatic. Sea- 

 son, September, October. Not yet tested 

 except by the originator. Sample grown 

 Fio. 919.— Walter Apple. by Mr. W. H. Dempsey. 



Fui. 920. — Section of Walter Apple. 



Grain crops should never be planted among trees, as they deprive them of 

 air to a very injurious extent. If no root crops are cultivated, the ground 

 should be kept clean and mellow with the one-horse plow and cultivator. . . . 

 Every third or fourth year, the trees should receive a dressing of a well-decom- 

 posed manure or compost. — Patrick Barrv, The Fruit Garden, ist Edition, 

 i860. 



