. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1889. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THl' ^apadian 4^Torticalt(inst Vol. XII. NOVEMBER, 1889. No. II --">g^'g>- THE WEALTHY LTHOUGH a com- paratively new apple, the Wealthy, on account of its beauty, productive- ness and hardiness, has become quite famous. In 1874, according to the Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society of that year, it was a question in its native State whether this then new variety should be recommended for general cultiva- tion or not, and probably very little was known about the apple, save by a few
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1889. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THl' ^apadian 4^Torticalt(inst Vol. XII. NOVEMBER, 1889. No. II --">g^'g>- THE WEALTHY LTHOUGH a com- paratively new apple, the Wealthy, on account of its beauty, productive- ness and hardiness, has become quite famous. In 1874, according to the Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society of that year, it was a question in its native State whether this then new variety should be recommended for general cultiva- tion or not, and probably very little was known about the apple, save by a few fruit-growers living about Ex- celsior ; now it is widely distributed, and in the catalogue of the American Pomological Society it is double starred, as being commended for special excellence, by the Province of New Brunswick, and the States of Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa and Colorado. The honor of originating this apple belongs to Peter Gideon, of Excelsior, Minnesota, who grew it from seeds of the Siberian Crab carried there by him from the State of Maine. Our colored plate of this apple is claimed bv the artists to be an exact representation of a carefully selected specimen grown in Pennsylvania; but fearing that it was an exaggera- tion, we had rejected the plate, until we had secured samples of the Wealthy from various parts of On- tario. Particularly fine specimens were sent us by Mr. A. M. Smith of St. Catharines, and by Mr. A. A. Wright, of Renfrew. Of these the former were the best in color, but only medium in size; while the latter, though grown so far north, were much the largest ; one of them measuring about twelve inches in circumference, and so nearly the size of the one pourtrayed in this plate that we have concluded to use it. No doubt it is better, as a rule, to represent fruits according to their average size, instead of choosing out the very finest samples, and that course will be generally pursued by this journal, as our interests are wholly on the side of the
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