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Show Gave Apples to England. - Of all the productions of the vegetable vege-table world which the skill and ingenuity in-genuity of man have rendered conducive condu-cive to his happiness and to the increase in-crease of his enjoyments the apple stands forward as the most conspicuous. conspicu-ous. It is now a fruit crop of universal univer-sal growth, and although the most beautifully sun-stained examples reach England at various periods of the year from Canada and California and the temperate regions of the great Australian Austra-lian colonies for flavor none of them equal those grown in England. The garden apple is be'ieved to have been introduced into F m lin by the Romans, Ro-mans, and the wild cple of our hedgerows hedge-rows is the type of the fruit when left to degenerate, and to which it would speedily return but for constant culture. cul-ture. f |