APPLES 



apples to be enjoyed — Ringo, Kaido, Toringo 

 — nearly all of Japanese origin, all of distinct 

 beauty, and all continuing that beauty in hand- 

 some but inedible fruits that hang most of the 

 summer. My tree-loving friends can well study 

 these, and, I hope, plant them, instead of 

 repeating continually the monotonously familiar 

 shrubs and trees of ordinary commerce. 



But I have not spoken enough of one nota- 

 ble feature of the every-day apple tree that we 

 may see without a journey to the East. The 

 fully set fruiting branch of an apple tree in 

 health and vigor, properly nurtured and pro- 

 tected against fungous disease by modern 

 "spraying," is a thing of beauty in its form 

 and color. See those deep red Baldwins shine 

 overhead in the frosty air of early fall; note the 

 elegance of form and striping on the leathery- 

 skinned Ben Davis ; appreciate true apples of 

 gold set in green enamel on a tree of the 

 sunny Bellefleur! These in the fall; but it is 

 hardly full summer before the closely set 

 branches of Early Harvest are as beautiful as 

 any orange-tree., or the more upright Red 

 Astrachan is ablaze with fruit ' of red and 



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