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APRICOT 



flat-headed borer, and the former is the greater 

 pest. If the beetles can be prevented from 

 :ig their eggs on the bark, the danger is 

 .ented, for the grubs do not themselves 

 seek out the trees. Painting the lower part 

 of the tree during the egg-laying months of 

 June and July with whitewash or with fish-oil 

 soap is usually effective. No spraying can rid 

 trees of the borers once they have been 

 hatched; they must be dug out patiently one 

 by one. C.H.H. 



Consult Waugh's The American Apple Orchard; 

 Woolverton's Canadian Apple-Growers' Guide. 

 An older work, but standard, Is Bailey's Field 

 Notes on Apple Culture. 



APPLE OF DISCORD, the wonderful golden 

 apple, in the tales of mythology, destined to 

 be the real cause of the Trojan War. It bore 

 the words "For the fairest," and was thrown 

 by the goddess of discord into an assembly 

 of the gods. Juno, Venus and Minerva all 

 claimed it, and when the Trojan Paris, chosen 

 judge, gave it to Venus, Juno became so jealous 

 that she determined to destroy the Trojan race. 

 Nor did she cease her plots until she had done 

 as she planned. See PARIS ; TROY. 



APPLETON, ap' 'I ton, Wis., the county seat 

 of Outagamie County, noted for its large paper 

 and paper-pulp mills. It is situated on the 

 Fox River, in the eastern part of the state 

 about midway between the northern and south- 

 ern state lines. Green Bay is thirty miles 

 northeast, Fond du Lac is thirty-nine miles 

 south and Milwaukee is 100 miles southeast. 

 Railway transportation is provided by the Chi- 

 cago & North Western and the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & Saint Paul railways; trolley lines 

 communicate with cities in the Fox River 

 Valley as far as Green Bay and there is 

 steamer connection with Lake Winnebago, 

 south, and with Lake Michigan through Green 

 Bay. The place was settled in 1845 and was 

 incorporated as a city in 1857. It was named 

 in honor of Samuel Appleton of Massachusetts, 

 who owned part of the original town. The 

 commission form of government was adopted 

 in 1910. The population increased from 16,773 

 in 1910 to 17,492 in 1914, Germans forming the 

 greater part of the foreign element. The area 

 is six and one-half square miles. 



Appleton is located near the rapids called 

 Grand Chute, which at this point have a de- 

 scent of fifty feet and furnish ample power 

 for manufacturing purposes. By a series of 

 dams the river is made navigable for steam- 

 boats. The city ranks with the leading paper 



producing centers of the United States; be- 

 sides this industry it is extensively engaged in 

 making farm implements, furniture, dyes, knit 

 and woolen goods. Appleton was one of the 

 first cities in the United States to have electric 

 street railways. Besides its public schools it 

 has Appleton Collegiate Institute, Lawrence 

 College (changed from a university in 1908) 

 and a public library. The city owns its water 

 works and has five parks. G.F.C. 



APPRENTICE, apren' tis, one who is bound 

 by an agreement to serve another for the pur- 

 pose of learning a trade. When Benjamin 

 Franklin was a boy his father made an agree- 

 ment with Benjamin's older brother that the 

 latter should take the boy, give him a home 

 and teach him the printer's trade. By this 

 agreement Benjamin became an apprentice to 

 this brother, who in law would be known as 

 his master. Such instances were extremely 

 common in the day in which Franklin lived. 



By the terms of an apprenticeship agreement, 

 the master furnishes the apprentice with a 

 home, and teaches him the trade in which 

 the master is engaged. The apprentice is 

 to obey the master and to give him his 

 services as long as the agreement lasts. A 

 person under age, that is, a minor, may of his 

 own accord agree to become an apprentice, but 

 his parents or guardian must consent to the 

 agreement. An agreement for apprenticeship 

 cannot be bought or sold. The time for which 

 the agreement is made depends to some extent 

 upon the trade to be learned; seven years was 

 the maximum. Formerly nearly all trades were 

 learned in this way, but the introduction of 

 machinery has practically set aside this method 

 of learning trades in England, Canada and the 

 United States. 



Naval Apprentice. There is a system of 

 apprenticeship in the United States navy, by 

 which boys fifteen and seventeen years of 

 age may be admitted to the navy and serve 

 until they are twenty-one. During the first 

 year the naval apprentice receives $9 a month; 

 during the second year he receives $15 and 

 during the third and following years $21. 



APRICOT, ay' prikot, one of the fruits con- 

 taining stony seeds, grown on a tree belonging 

 to the same family as the rose, and cultivated 

 in all temperate regions. It is a native of 

 Armenia and other parts of Asia, also of Africa. 

 The tree is low and has heart-shaped leaves; 

 the fruit is sweet, juicy, of a yellowish color, 

 a 'little smaller than a peach, which it resembles 

 in delicacy of flavor. Apricots are extensively 



