AN APPLE-TREE MONUMENT.
One of the most novel monuments in existence has been built in Canala by the farmers of Dundas County Ontario.
They have erected a marble pillar to mark the sight on which grew a famous apple-tree. More than a century ago a settler, in Canada named Macintosh, when clearing a space in which to make a home in the wilderness, discovered among a number of wild apple-trees one which bore fruit so superior to the rest that he cultivated it and named it the Macintosh Red.
The apple became famous ; seeds and cuttings were distributed to all parts of Canada, so that now the Macintosh Red flourishes wherever apples grow in the great Dominion. In 1596 the original tree from which
this enormous family sprang was injured by fire, but it continued to
bear fruit until a few years ago. Then, after 115 years, it died, and the grateful farmers have raised a marble pillar in honour of the tree which has done so much for the fruitgrowing industry of that land.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2650, 8 December 1919, Page 7
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