78 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



for US, and in the meantime the day of small things is not that of 

 unimportant ones. Are we who are teachers enthusiastic and wide 

 awake to take advantage of ever}' resource that may supplement our 

 work? Are we interested in all lines of advance? Do we know 

 what can be done and is done in other schools and other states ? If 

 we have under-estimated the importance of this work, surely it is 

 worth our while to test its merits and it will be found the Book of 

 Revelation indeed. 



THE APPLE IX COOKERY. 



By Miss Anna Barroavs, Priueipal of the Cooking Department of the 

 School of Domestic Science, Boston. 



The cooker}- of the apple is interwoven with the principles of all 

 cookery, therefore this subject might be expanded into a good-sized 

 cook- book. As this is impossible we can take but a bird's eye 

 view of the apple in its relation to human life. It has been truly 

 said, "■There is no fruit in temperate climates, so universally 

 esteemed and so extensively cultivated, nor is there any which is so 

 closely identified with the social habits of the human species as the 

 apple." 



We shall all agree, that even if the apple had no commercial 

 value, it would have as good claim to existence as other ornamental 

 trees. The masses of white petals, shading into pink, that deck 

 the trees in May, make them worthy rivals of their cousins — the 

 June roses. 



"As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my 

 beloved among the sons," says the song of Solomon. Its fresh 

 green foliage affords pleasant shade in midsummer, while the ripen- 

 ing fruit in autumn shows a greater variety and richness of color than 

 that of the maple or any merely foliage tree. Even in the winter, 

 when the foliage and fruit have departed, the knurled, crotched 

 branches, with their snowy covering, make the apple tree a pictur- 

 esque object in the landscape. 



The apple probably boasts a more ancient lineage than any other 

 fruit, though it is decidedly doubtful whether it was the 

 "Primeval iutertlicted fruit tliat wou 

 Foud Eve, iu hapless hour, to taste and die." 



