THE 



Canadian Horticulturist. 



1891 



THE LARUE APPI.E. 



HE Larue Apple, known also as the Red Pound and as the 

 Baxter, is a magnificent, large, red apple, very showy and well 

 adapted to be placed on the market as fancy stock. Did it pos- 

 sess the superior quality of the Spy or the King, no apple that 

 we know of would compare with it for market purposes during the 

 months of December and January. Samples of it have several 

 times been sent in to us and all were remarkable for both size 

 and beauty, quite excelling the most handsome specimens of the 

 King that we have ever seen. 



The Larue was first introduced to public notice by Mr. D. Nicol, 

 ofCataraqui, Director of our Association for Division No. 3, and the history of it 

 was given by him on page 156 of Vol. 12. 



He says that at first he gave it the name of Baxter, after an old gentleman 

 who was peddling these apples in Brockville in 1855 at 5 cents each, and who, 

 in reply to his inquiries, told him that the tree from which they were picked was 

 growing near Mr. LaRue's mills, about 13 miles west of Brockville. Mr. Nicol hav- 

 ing a nursery near that town, secured some scions of it and propagated about fifty 

 trees under the name Baxter, and these were first of the kind ever propagated in 

 Canada. 



On visiting Mr. Billa LaRue, in whose orchard these apples grew, he was in- 

 formed by that gentleman that the tree sprang from the seed brought by him 

 from France in the year 1813. Mr. LaRue, therefore, riot Mr. Baxter, is pro- 

 perly entitled to give his name to the apple, and, in the opinion of Mr. Nicol, it 

 should henceforth be so called. 



