. Stark fruit book. Nursery stock Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowering shrubs Catalogs. MAMMOTH BLACK reputation of this very large dark red winter apple was first made in the vicinity of its origin m Ark. The writer made a 3 weeks' trip through this section several years ago, and lately another trip—when many fine photos were secured, among them that of the original M. B. Twig tree, some 70-odd years old, of great size, still sound and in full bearing, fm. NCS. This fine old tree should settle the M, B. Twig-Paragon controversy as to Tenn. ori
. Stark fruit book. Nursery stock Missouri Louisiana Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowering shrubs Catalogs. MAMMOTH BLACK reputation of this very large dark red winter apple was first made in the vicinity of its origin m Ark. The writer made a 3 weeks' trip through this section several years ago, and lately another trip—when many fine photos were secured, among them that of the original M. B. Twig tree, some 70-odd years old, of great size, still sound and in full bearing, fm. NCS. This fine old tree should settle the M, B. Twig-Paragon controversy as to Tenn. origin. See Paragon— a distinct, smaller, but not widely differing sort. Certainly finer looking apples were never seen than are M. B. Twig at their best—sometimes almost too large; 20-oz. specimens were shown at Ark. Hort. Soc, the largest apples there. We saw many trees with good crops; on poor soils bears best, apples higher colored ; tardy bearer on rich black land. Still, after most carefully examining M. B. Twig in scores of orchards, trees of all ages and on various soils, we cannot escape the conviction that it is not up to the mark as a heavy cropper. An all-round dependable market apple must be a full cropper, a barrel filler. Tardy sorts no objection here, for even Bellflower and other shy fruiters bear heavily the 2d and 3d year; heaxy bearers require thinning.—R. J. Coffey, Delta Co., Colo. I SHIP you a box of M. B. Twig appks picked from a tree bought of you 4 or 5 years ago. Two years ago it yielded one basket; last year two, and this year almost a barrel: tree fine.—H. H. Curtis, Araimhoe Colo. M. B. Twig bore handsome apples, keeping sound as nuts. Ko blight, vigorous, hardy.—G. J. Burnett, " " Have 11,000 M. B. Twig in my orchard; 4-yr. trees )x)re half bushel each of finest apples.—A. W. Poole. Ark. Eyan & RiCH.\RDS0N, wholesale fruits, Leavenworth, Kan., are planting trees of M. B. T\ng—planting the Mam. Black Twig rath
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