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few years and must be nearly 200 years old. There are also 

 authentic records* of other old Greening trees that are at least 

 150 years old. This fruit has always been a favorite in New 

 York State. Although we do not know the facts of the history 

 of its introduction, it is certain that it had become widely dis- 

 seminated in New York during the eighteenth century. 



FIG. 199. ANCIENT RHODE ISLAND GREENING 

 TREE. AMOTT 200 YEARS OLD, THAT STOOD 

 IMIL RECENTLY IN TOWN OF FOSTER, R. I., 

 NEAR HYGEIA 



(Frot If ailcy's "New Cyclopedia of American Horti- 

 culture." Courtesy, The Macmillan Company.) 



MONUMENTS TO ORIGINAL VARIETIES 



During recent years fruit growers of this region have shown 

 a desire to preserve even the most fragmentary data relative to 

 the early orchards planted in this country by the first settlers 

 from the Old World, and in several instances they have mani- 

 fested their appreciation of the struggle that our forefathers en- 

 dured in establishing our Nation in prosperity and fruitfulness, 

 by erecting monuments on the spot where certain of our choicest 

 varieties of apple trees originated. We have already referred to 

 the granite shaft erected in 1895 by the Kumford Historical As- 

 sociation of Woburn, Mass., to the Baldwin apple, and have in- 

 formation of another unveiled to the Mclntosh Eed by the far- 

 mers of Dundas County at Dundela, Ontario, Canada, in 1912. 

 The origin of the Wealthy apple, a leading variety of the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, is likewise commemorated bv a tablet dedicated in 



* Apples of New York, Vol. I, p. 286. 



