While Air R. _>!. McwatV -was eurveying in tho i'apanui (Ruakituri) uistrict recently (says the "Wairoa Star"} ho came across a horticultural curiosity in the shape of "\vbat appeared to liim to be a new apple. The latter has all the m.irlring a nd qxialities of a Gravenstein, but is coreless and apparently seedless, unless a number of tiny seeds the size of a pin's head can be termed pips. Mr Mowat is th;nking of sending a specimen to Mr Luther Burbank, the famous horticultural expert of California (U.S.A.).
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18015, 6 March 1924, Page 15
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