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Show Two Famonn Old Apple Trees. The decayed stump is all that remains of the famous "mother tree, " the oldest known specimen of the Rhode Island Greening. A few rods southwest of the old limekiln on the northern verge of Fruit Hill, on Frederick W. "Winsor's farm, stands a younger tree. Mrs. Win- sor s grbat-great-grandfather, Nehemiah Smith, planted the mother tree, of which the other is a limb wrenched while loaded load-ed with fruit from the parent stock, during dur-ing King George II 's reign, in 1748, and was therefore 141 years old when it was cut down in 1889-90, and its life from the seed must be nearly 150 years. The presen t tree, "the daughter tree, ' ' so called, is a limb of the mother trunk and was broken off in the September gale of 1815, and which, from an elbow thrust into the moist, rich soil, took root and became independent. F. M. Perry of Canandaigua, N. Y., a famous nurseryman and pomologist, pronounced pronounc-ed the fruit of these trees the finest of the Greening family and procured hundreds hun-dreds of scions from the stock to introduce intro-duce into New York and the middle tates. Providence Journal. |