. Birds and nature . as so strong that hewould never kill an animal or prune atree. To him the changing of thenatural fruit of a tree by grafting was aninexcusable wickedness. He was favoredwith a life of sufficient length to see appletrees bearing fruit throughout an areaconsisting of over 100,000 acres. The common apples are derived fromthe species Pyrus malus, and the crab-apples are from Pyrus hacceata (Sibe-rian crab). Pyrus malus is a low sym-metrical tree with thick and fuzzy leavesand compact clusters of flowers. It isestimated that there are actually on salein the markets of North Ame
. Birds and nature . as so strong that hewould never kill an animal or prune atree. To him the changing of thenatural fruit of a tree by grafting was aninexcusable wickedness. He was favoredwith a life of sufficient length to see appletrees bearing fruit throughout an areaconsisting of over 100,000 acres. The common apples are derived fromthe species Pyrus malus, and the crab-apples are from Pyrus hacceata (Sibe-rian crab). Pyrus malus is a low sym-metrical tree with thick and fuzzy leavesand compact clusters of flowers. It isestimated that there are actually on salein the markets of North America not farfrom one thousand varieties of apples,and that in the whole world about twothousand varieties are known. Thislarge number is due to the fact that thea])plc may be propagated from seeds andsporting freely, new varieties are con-stantly produced. In this country during earlier days, theapple was chiefly prized for the produc-tion of cider. Because of the belief thatany apple was good enough for cider, its w.
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