• • • 
The Bismarck Apple. . . . 
Read the following reliable evidence of its value : 
TT7HIS fine nav apple comes from New 
i Zealand, and it is creating greater inter- 
est among apple growers than any other 
variety. Not only here, but all over 
Kiirope. It is a fruit of large size, speci- 
mens having been grown, it is claimed, of^ 
nearly two pounds each. Color, a deep 
orange yellow, shading to a bronzy red, 
and verj' attractive. Flesh yellow, tender 
and juicy, and of good quality. Keeps all 
winter. It ha.s been fully tested in Russia, 
Germany, P'rance, England, United States 
and Canada, and wherever grown has 
proved a most astonishing revelation in 
hardiness and early fruiting. - 
The following from the London Gard- 
ner's Chronicle of October iX, 1895, shows 
its productiveness: : 
“ Now we have to .spekk- of another aj)- 
ple called “ BismarCk.” It furnishes an in- 
stance of precocious' heavy- bearing that 
we do not remember to have seen equaled. 
Eighteen rods and a half were covered with 
Bismarck trees of two years old upon the 
Doucin stock. Many of these had eleven, 
a few twelve, large fruits upon them, and 
some had none. The trees are planted in 
nursery rows about three feet apart, and 
the plants about a foot asunder. An acre 
of trees cropped in such a manner would 
yield about five hundred bushels of fruit 
per acre. This is a wonderful showing 
for a new fruit, which is destined to become 
a universal favorite.” 
What the Gardner's Chronicle says of its productiveness, is confirmed by 
experience in this country, as on a transplanted two-year Standard tree was 
counted twenty-six handsome apples, showing what a wonder it is. 
