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Show Two Parnons Old Apple Treat. Tho decayed stump is all that remain of the famous "mOthor tree, " the oldes 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'a farm, stands a younger tree. Mrs. Win-301 Win-301 "s gi tat-great-grandfather, Nehemiah Smith, planted the mother tree, of which the other is a limb wrenched while loaded load-ed with fruit from tho parent stock; during dur-ing King George IPs reign, in 1748, and was therefore 141 years old -.vX n it was cut down in 1889-90, and its life from tho seed must be nearly 150 years. Thepresent tree, "the daughter tree. " so called, is a limb cf the mother trunk and was broken off in the September gale of 181 0, and which, from an elbow thrust into the moist, rich soil, took root and becamo 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 hun dreds of scions from the stock to introduce intro-duce into New York and the middta utates. Providence Journal. The pope Is said to have made an awS ward and amusing mistake when Mr. J. G. S. Cor, editor of Tho Tablet, London, Lon-don, was presented to him. Catching of the words of introduction only the innouncemeut that his visitor was the editor of a celebrated English paper, tho pope, with a radiant smile, said, "U Punch. " Tho pope is pardonable if fao doesn't read all the religious papam tent to tho Vatican Boston Transcript |