Show 1 ja i I 1 k M na 1 44 W q W 0 MU R q ij X 1 by robbert H MOULTON V world la is full of monuments erected to the memory CUB CHU of notable men and women and in commemoration of notable events and even v e n famous race horses and pet cuts cats and dogs doga have had their merits a extol extolled lep on granite shafts but the only monument to a tree trea of which there la Is any record stands ln in a held field in madison county i iowa and tells the romance 0 of f the big red Dell delicious clous apple which was born in iowa and isnow Is now known and grown in every quarter of the globe where pomona waves her wand this unique monument was dedicated on august 16 15 to tile the parent delicious tree which Is still standing and still bearing apples ablin abundantly dantly offer after a u life of f 50 60 years its offspring lit in trees distributed and planted num ter her more alian according to tho the lowest estimate by experts ex perta fully a third of the baby trees arees have survived and grown to producing age the time same experts estimate st linato that eliat the annual crop of apples from these trees brings in the markets markees annually therefore the alft year old nr tree free near which has been placed this memorial a granite boulder sult suitably ably inscribed ina may coll call itself the WO a year tipple apple tree the story ot of the Dell delicious clous tipple apple tree Is a roni romance tince without a precedent bucl back in the fifties a young quaker farmer left bl his 4 home in indiana and settled in madison bouny iowa near tile the little town of peru jesse huntt was ills name ile he loved th the tipple apple and the tipple apple treo tree with the loye love of one who know knew their secrets to him an apple was un tin institution and n now new apple wild was nn an epoch milking event th the anew new settler planted nn an orchard shortly after lie he acquired tits his farni farm he ninde made it a specialty of apple trees ile he grew trees of the popular varieties of that time always seeking goi something newer and better ono one tiny day in the spring of 1872 gillatt found that a bellflower Bell seedling in its orchard had bad died but from the root had sprung a tiny shoot ho he j resolved to watch that apple sprout I 1 and see if it was worth while ile he j would give it a chance in tile tho world A few years later the bellflower Belll lower or 3 phan reached tin the producing point A j few buds buda were observed in spring J by midsummer the he buds had find lecome become j tiny apples by early autumn the baby apples had grown to big red tf ia ones and irom from each emanated a most i delicious clous aroma jease hiatt plucked A 4 one and me ate it the like the aroma ir oroa was delicious te apple tasted II 11 like no ni other apple that lie had eaten the was different eacie apple on the trie tr ie had a quintet of rounded knobs well defined tills pre precluded clouded I 1 I 1 it beirl belr p a Belil lower apple S in we the opinion of J resse blatt it must j be something else a new apple alto gether betha r g thus it came about that in honor of his adopted state falatt blatt gave his ja new apple the name of tile the Ilaw keye i lowns nickname vo pot 15 35 years after bearing its first crop crof the 1116 new tree bore annu tilly and increasingly before its found a way of making it known beyond ills his neighbor flood there in affie alost af Hi clatts fitts big orchard s tood stood the single tree sturdy it trunk braf brandies ibes rudl radl wing with strong self support tile the foll foil 7 fige age of Q n glensy green the fruit a rich ff red md glory V nr A r 04 eul hiatt hoped to introduce ills his new apple by selling belling to some nursery tile the right to use scions from the tree for reproduction A scion Is a slip or cutting from a twig or shoot of a tree for grafting or planting ever eer since 1810 1816 there had been in hi pike county missouri near tile the little city of louisiana a nursery whose management was anthe on the watch for new varieties but butchis tills this was more than miles from tile the hiatt orchard and the old mans efforts to market apparently did not reech that far in 1893 1693 however hiatt learned that ayery autumn there was held in the city of Loul louisiana n tt a fruit show conducted by clarence id stark then president of tile stark nurseries a grandson of tile the founder he wondered if stark would bo be interested in tits his hawkeye apple he decided to senji send town down a few for the fruit show anyway and accordingly boxed four hawkeye beauties and shipped them to louisiana r they were placed on display along with apples of many varieties from missouri and other states and with s samples nin ples of various other fruits some of the displays were much more noticeable having lieving many more taran a mere quartet of kamples tile the beauty of the hawkeye apples caught starks attention at once their aromatic fragrance frn grance caused hlin blin to pause and pick up one of tile apples the man who knew apples from A to zan Z and d back again bit into tile the hawkeye delicious I 1 lie ho cried delicious 1 then eagerly he took another bite and another and several more for tile Ilaw hawkeye keye was a big fellow finally lio lie had devoured the entire apple there being no core to speak of then lie ho looked to see who was making tills this exhibit but unfortunately tile the tag of the lost in the shuf and there was ads no way of telling where the apples had come from there was nothing to do hut but wait waft i in the hope that tile the unknown far pr would send samples the nexCy next year ear and he did tit in 1804 blatt sent another modest showing of Haw keyes securely tugged tagged stork stark carefully opened the exhibit shipments himself that ahn t time with the express 9 purpose of finding the mysterious new apple about which he had dreamed for a whole year and he found it he recognized the apple by its even before he opened the package pack lie he wrote to huntt immediately anti and soon a contract to and mari mar i ket all scions from the tree wua mado made mr stark always carried with jilin dim a little note book in which lie he jotted down appropriate names so they would bo be ready fr for new fruits whenever they were discovered for a number of years he lied hod retained in the bohon one name for which he hoped some day to find a new fruit worthy to bear it that name was de delicious 11 clous 1 and the moment lit lie bit into the samples sent by jesse huntt tie he knew lie had found the tipple apple ho he had so RO long sought so tile the exclamation delicious I 1 not only expressed the delight of no an itil apple connoisseur but named on tile the in stunt it new apple the hawkeye fram ni that time forth has been the stark delicious and that guitie Is registered lo in tile the patent office nt at washington with he naming and arrangements I 1 for introduction conlo completed eted the next problem wats WAS testing tile the tree and fruit in n various apple regions it had been estimated that from forty to fafty years were required for successful apples to income known by the public fiat fifty y years Is a long thuie and mr stark felt that it if tills this new apple wits was us aa widely adapted and ns jis valuable ns as lie ho thought it would be it would menn mean too great it a loss to the fruit world to wait that long so he fiti opted the novel plan phin of sending out each shIp shipping pim season n few young delicious trees free with tle the various verlous orders going to different parts of tile the country ile felt that tit these ese trees would tell them the story it if till this apple like some soine other sorts would succeed only in a limited territory there would bo be little heard front from tile the trees on tit the other hand if it was ivits widely successful under varied conditions of soli soil and cili climate linte he firmly believed tile the delicious would revolutionize all established ideas or aror growing ing how this flits unusual test turner out Is well known several years litter the first delicious trees were vero sent out atit letters began to conie collie 11 in from all parts 0 of the country nt ni first gradi gradually jilly and then in a flood everybody wanted to know the name of the new apple which taste like other apples but had a distinctive flavor ull all its own they aliey wanted to plant more of them and thus tile the delicious started it flight toward national and eventually international A I 1 recognition |