148 



Other remarks on seedless apples are those of Darwin/ who 

 speaks of the curious St, Valery apple, in France, which although 

 it bears fruit, rarely produces seed; that of the Bon Jardinier^^ 

 which describes the Sajis Trognonde Menocher^ an excellent win- 

 ter apple of the valley of Digomier, of which is said : *' We do not 

 know of a finer apple ; it is well named coreless, for it has noth- 

 ine[ within the skin which resembles a core, neither seed nor seed 



cells; it is excellent, of large medium size ! '' 



As to causes, the apple becomes seedless in Jamaica accord- 

 ing to Lunan,^ apparently the effect of climate. In Knight's^ ex- 

 periment of grafting the apple on the pear, the fruit was seedless. 

 In 1882 some Carolina Red Sour apple trees bore a second crop 

 in Georgia, and these were seedless; "There was not the least 

 evidence that any embryo had ever been present in the core or 

 cavities of the endocarp."^ 



In a case reported in France^ of a seedling apple one-half of 

 which was red and acid, the other half green and sweet, suggest- 

 ing hybridization, there was said to be scarcely ever a perfectly 



developed seed. 



In counting the seed of a number of variety of apples, the fol- 

 lowing figures were obtained. ^ 



Va7'iety, 



No. of Spccimcjis, 



Average No, 



Average No. 







z 



\f Phifnp S.cciL 



Total Seed, 



Baldwin 



» 



67 



3-13 



5.74 



Bellefleur, 



5 



9.5 



11.5 



«t 



Yellow, 



2 



S 



8 



Blue Pearmain 



3 



12 



12.66 



Greenin 





I 



4 



7 



(i 



naked limb 



I 



10 



10 



1 ( 



Palmer 



r 



3 



3 



t ( 



Rhode Island 



6 



6.87 



II. 21 



11 



Winthrop 



I 



6 



7 



Gilliflower, 



3 



5 , 



7 



Grimes' 



Golden, 



I 



10 



10 



1 Darwin, An. and PI. ii. 203. See also Bailey, The Bloomless Apple, Am. 

 Garden, Jan. 1890, 6. 



2 Bon Jardinier, 1S82, p. xlvii. 

 jLunan. Hort. Jam. p. 24, 

 4Phys. and Ilort. Papers, 222. 



5 Country- Gentleman, Nov. 30, 1SS2. 



6 Loudon's Gard. Mag. xiii. 230- 



7 N. Y. Ag. Ex. Sta. Kept. 18S2, 82 ; Proc- Soc. for P. of Ag. S<*. iSSi, 114. 



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