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THE ORCHARD 



or box. Barrel or box, too, may well be lined inside with 

 paper to prevent bruising. Apples that are to bring the 

 best price are wrapped individually in soft paper and are 



packed as evenly and 

 carefully in all the other 

 layers as in the top one. 

 Our space permits 

 only a few words about 

 each of the common 

 fruits. 



225. The Apple. The 

 Indians never saw an 

 apple until they were 

 shown one by the set- 

 tlers. There were little 

 wild apples in America, 

 to be sure; but these 

 were so bitter and use- 

 less when compared with 

 the "King of Fruits" 

 that only by a generous 

 courtesy do we call them 

 "apples" at all. To- 

 day, however, North 



DEHORNED APPLE TREE. America leads the world 



in apple production. 



More than 100,000,000 barrels are produced here annually. 

 Over 1,000,000 barrels were exported in 1908. 



"Johnny Appleseed" and his work in planting the apple in the 

 Ohio Valley is as interesting as Daniel Boone and his experience in 

 the dark lands of the frontier. "Johnny Appleseed " was a Pennsyl- 

 vania school teacher whose pay was apple seeds, which the children 

 gathered for him. His boat filled with these seeds, he would start 

 down the Ohio, when spring came, and plant orchard after orchard 



