THE 



Canadian Horticulturist. 



Vol. XIV. 



1891. 



No, 9. 



PEWAUKEE APPLE. 



HIS apple seems to possess some very desirable qualities, as 

 a winter export variety. It is large, of good color and of 

 excellent quality for cooking, while the tree itself is hardy 

 and productive. The apple originated at Pewaukee, Mich. , 

 and is a seedling of the Duchess of Oldenburg, which cir- 

 cumstance alone would lead us to expect to find it possessed 

 of considerable merit. It appears to be of sufficient hardi- 

 ness for most parts of Ontario and Quebec, where apples are raised to any ex- 

 tent ; and some growers who have it in their orchards have spoken very highly 

 of it at meetings of our Association. 



Thus Mt. p. C. Dempsey, of Trenton, Ont., says of it in our report for 1889, 

 page 9 : " The Pewaukee is as pretty as the King with us. It will produce two 

 barrels to one of the King and fetch just as much. I do not think I could re- 

 commend any other apple more highly than the Pewaukee."' 



An Ohio fruit grower writes in the Prairie Farmer in the following terms con- 

 cerning it: "This valuable variety has not received the attention it really 

 deserves. The Pewaukee apple trees in my orchard were one year old from 

 graft, when planted in 1878, and at no time have they shown any signs of injury 

 from the winters, while such varieties as Northern Spy, Maiden's Blush, Rambo, 

 Early Harvest, Buckingham and Rawle's Janet were entirely killed. No tree in 

 the orchard compares with it for beauty of form and productiveness. From the 



