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Show Apples of Tasmania Grow From Stump, Not From Limb Tasmania, Australia, is known to the veteran traveler as apple land, although were the American asked to Identify the fruit by the manner ln which It grows he would find it difficult, asserts a writer In the Detroit De-troit News. The trees are not more than six feet high. They are trimmed every year and only the stump Is permitted permit-ted to remain. Sprouts grow from the stump and the apples do not hang from the limbs ns here. The blossoms bloom from the body of the limb, which Is covered with apples, ap-ples, once fittingly described thus: "Apples grow from the limb as freckles on an arm." Apple growing is a' considerable Industry in Tasmania, upward of 3,500,000 bushels a year being shipped. The earth Is especially suitable for the growth of the fruit, which thrives as no other would there. Large orchards dot the sides of the rocky hills. The trees grow bushy and as many as 20 bushels of apples often can be picked from one. Fruit growers with ten acres of apple land in southern Tasmania earn a comfortable yearly Income. |