In this oountrj'' wealth is oblidged to pay respeot 

 to popular opinion. And of all the fruits the apple is 

 the most demooratlo. This popular favor of the apple 

 arises from the nature of the tree and the fruit. Any 

 man who oan grow oorn can grow apples, 



"In every soil and in the most discouraging cii'- 

 cumstanoes the apple tree lives and thrives. It can 

 hear high or low cultivation. It is not dj'-speptid 

 like the peach, apoplectic like the pear or scrofulus 

 the plum. The apple is among the fruits like the cow 

 among the animals, like the camel and like all good 

 things uncomely — for beauty is only the mark v^rhich 

 covers everything that is evil. 



We should as soon think of coddling our forest 

 trees as the apple tree. It will thrive in the stony 

 lot too steep for the plough 'or grow in the meadod 

 and repay us for the more abundant nutrition,"* 



HISTORY AlTD PRIITCIPAL SECTIOITS OF 

 APPLE PRODUCTION, 



The apple is the fruit of a tree belonging to the 

 rose family and known botanically as "Pyrus llalus". 

 It is supposed to be a native of South Eastern Asia 



"Z£!:-:^n&i^ Qf Horticulture Oct, 1905. 



