Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1913 — Wide Variety of Apples. [ARTICLE]

Wide Variety of Apples.

The elder Pliny tells us that the Romans’ had twenty-five varieties of the apple and wealthy people of that time vied with each other In producing the finest specimens, says Field and Farm. It is now supposed that these varieties or some of them were carried by the armies of Caesar in his invasions of Briton, thus adding the rarest leaf to the crown of that great conqueror and giving to the world a gift that few kings could bestow. Those twetny-five varieties will contain 15,000 names and synonyms, one-half of which can .be called distinct varieties. The last report of the American pomological society files down the list to 358 apples and crab apples,that have distinctive characteristics of value to the fruit growers of the United States. Few of this list are adapted to all the States, but some sections can and do grow to advantage many of the varieties. With the present list of known and tried varieties, it is possible and desirable to have good ripe apples on one’s table every day In the year, without resorting to any better means than a cool cellar.