760 THE FKUIT INDUSTRY o NEW T YORK STATE 



1912 to the memory of Peter M. Gideon, of Excelsior, Minnesota. 

 In our own state there exist two such acknowledgments of our 

 debt to the past and our gratefulness for Nature's bounty, con- 

 cerning which the following information is found in Bailey's 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, together with sketches of 

 the monuments in question : " The first tab ] et in New York State 

 in memory of any apple was erected in the tow r n of Camillus, 

 Onondaga County, on the original site of the Primate apple tree. 

 John T. Koberts, Syracuse, on September 11, 1903, caused a 

 bronze tablet to be erected there. On this tablet is the following 



FIG. 200. BLOCK OF GRANITE COMMEMORAT- 

 ING THE WEALTHY APPLE ON BOULEVARD 

 LEADING TO MINNETONKA BEACH, NEAR EX- 

 CELSIOR, MINNESOTA 



The following inscription appears on the bronze 

 tablet : " This tablet commemorates Peter M. 

 Gideon who grew the original Wealthy apple tree 

 from seed on this, his homestead, in 1846. Erected 

 by the Native Sons of Minnesota, June, 1912." 

 (From Bailey's "Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. " 

 Courtesy, The Macmillan Company.) 



inscription: ( On this farm Calvin D. Bingham, about 1840, pro- 

 duced the marvelous Primate apple, named by Charles P. Cowles. 

 God's Earth is full of love to man.' 



"A second marker was erected in New York in 1912 to the 

 Northern Spy, Early Joe and Melon apples, at Bloomfield, by the 

 Ontario County Fruit-Growers' Society, with the following tablet : 

 ' The original Northern Spy apple tree stood about 14 rods south 

 of this spot, in a seedling orchard planted by Herman Chapin 

 about 1800. The Early Joe and Melon apples also originated in 

 this orchard.' " 



