. St. Nicholas [serial]. HE HUMMING-BIRDS NEST ON A HORSESHOE. THE LARGEST APPLE ON RECORDThe gigantic apple shown in the picture wasgrown by F. L. Post and Sons, of Chelan, Stateof Washington. It measures seventeen and oneeighth inches in circumference, and weighs morethan forty-one ounces. It grew on an eight-year-old tree on sub-irrigated land. The tree receivedordinary cultivation, and the apple had no extracare except that it was inclosed in thin nettingand tied to the tree to prevent it from falling tothe ground. The apple is of the variety knownas Spokane Beauty. These apples grow togre
. St. Nicholas [serial]. HE HUMMING-BIRDS NEST ON A HORSESHOE. THE LARGEST APPLE ON RECORDThe gigantic apple shown in the picture wasgrown by F. L. Post and Sons, of Chelan, Stateof Washington. It measures seventeen and oneeighth inches in circumference, and weighs morethan forty-one ounces. It grew on an eight-year-old tree on sub-irrigated land. The tree receivedordinary cultivation, and the apple had no extracare except that it was inclosed in thin nettingand tied to the tree to prevent it from falling tothe ground. The apple is of the variety knownas Spokane Beauty. These apples grow togreat size, are good to eat raw, and for cook-ing, and not specially coarse in grain. Theflavor is sub-acid. In color they are a light pinkwith darker stripes. The tree which bore thisapple grew on the shore of Lake Chelan, abouttwo miles from the town of Chelan, within astones throw of the water. The owner of the apple-tree which bore thiswonderful fruit writes to St. Nicholas: 19I2.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 943. THE BIG APPLE IN COMPARISON WITH ONE OFORDINARY SIZE. I sent the largest apple grown on that tree tothe Canadian National Apple Show, where it car-ried off the great prize for the largest apple inthe world—a hundred-dollar gold medal. Later,apples were sent to other shows and won the firstprize. In one lot fifty of the largest applesweighed together eighty-five pounds. A ROOT PUNCTURED A ROOT Some years ago, a gardener sent me the two rad-ishes shown in the photograph. They were aboutsix or seven inches long, and, as you see, one ofthem ran directly through the other. In the sec- --
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