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southern apple regions; the Fanieuse, Blue Pearmain, Reinette 

 and Baldwin groups to New York; and the crab-hybrid group, 

 represented by Wealthy, and the Russian apples, for the north 

 Mississippi Valley. This development of groups of related varie- 

 ties for regions having diverse conditions is becoming more and 

 more marked and in New York we can discard whole divisions 

 from the State and in the State can assign certain groups to cer- 

 tain pomological districts. Grouping varieties, then, is not only 

 a means of classification but is a real help many times as a guide 

 to apple-growers in seeking what to plant. 



Groups are by no means fixed units. If the species of fruits 

 were fixed they might be divided into parts that would be definite. 

 But species are " judgments," to use an oft-quoted saying of Asa 

 Gray, and the division of the apple species must also be an act of 

 judgment, the value of which depends upon the knowledge of the 

 judge. The groups of apples which follow, then, are tentative, 

 subject to modification, and are presented chiefly as a means of 

 showing the adaptations of varieties. 



GROUPS OF APPLES. 



Aport group. — Large, handsome, fall apples, coarse in texture 



and of medium quality. Some members of the group are adapted 



to all parts of New York. 



Alexander, Bismarck, McMahon, 



Ananarnoe, Constantine, Thompson, 



Aport Orient, Great Mogul, Wolf Kiver. 



Arabka, Howard Best, 



Bietigheimer, Judson, 



Baldwin group. — Highly colored, long keeping, well flavored, 



rather large apples with similarities in texture, flavor, form and 



color markings. Trees winterkill in the northern districts but are 



well adapted to all other districts. 



Arctic, Barber, Red Russet (red strain 



Babbitt, Hunterdon, of Baldwin), 



Baldwin, Olympia (identical Sutton, 



Bayard, with Baldwin ) , Tufts. 



