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Varieties differ so largely in adaptability to different climatic and soil 

 conditions, that the grower must be exceedingly careful in his selection. 

 Some varieties can endure greater extremes of cold than others, some 

 require special soils. There are a few varieties that do comparatively 

 well in almost all parts of the state, but most of the better varieties are 

 more or less sensitive to their surroundings and it does not necessarily 

 follow that, because a variety does well in one part of the state it will 

 do equally well in others, even of the same latitude. 



Many varieties which are successful in the western Michigan fruit 

 belt, are absolute failures in other parts of the state. So the prospective 

 orchardist must make a careful investigation to determine what varieties 

 do best in his particular locality and conclude which of these will do 

 best on his particular site and soil. Failure to do this means failure 

 for the orchard. 



The commercial orchardist should confine himself to a few varieties. 

 Experience has proven time and again that it is much easier to dispose 

 of the crop from an orchard if it has only a few varieties than if the 

 orchard has only a few trees of several varieties. Only in exceptional 

 cases, would it be wise to plant more than four or five varieties in a com- 

 mercial orchard and many times fewer would be better. The grower 

 can also make a more careful study of the special requirements of each 

 variety and be able to produce them to better advantage. 



Some varieties have delicate skins and bruise easily and hence are poor 

 shippers. If the fruit must be shipped long distances to market, such 

 varieties should not be included in a list for a commercial orchard. How- 

 ever, this will depend largely upon the care with which the fruit is 

 handled in harvesting and marketing. Varieties for cold storage uses 

 should be those which have good keeping qualities. 



VARIETIES SUGGESTED. 



Apples for Home OrcJiard — -Yellow Transparent, Sweet Bough, Pri- 

 mate, Jeffries, Duchess of Oldenburg, Chenango, Dyer, Maiden Blush, 

 Wealthy, Shiawassee, Mcintosh, Fameuse, Jacobs Sweet, Sutton, Hub- 

 bardston. King, Wagener, Winter Banana, Grimes Golden, Tolman, 

 Jonathan, Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Red Canada, Golden 

 Russett, Aiken. 



Apples for Market — Yellow Transparent, Duchess of Oldenburg, 

 Gravenstein, Wealthy, Mcintosh, Fameuse, Hubbardston, King, Wagener, 

 Grimes, Jonathan, Spy, Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Red Canada. 



Crad-apples for Home Use — Martha, Transcendant and Dartmouth. 



Crab-apples for Market — Hyslop. 



Pears for Home Use — Summer Doyenne, Bloodgood, Clapp's Favorite, 

 Bartlett, Manning Elizabeth, Seckel, Jones, Bosc, Sheldon, Anjou, Belle 

 Lucrative, Duchess (Angouleme), Louise, Superfin, Dana's Hovey, Law- 

 rence, Winter Nelis, Kieffer (for canning). 



Pears for Market — Giffard, Bartlett, Seckel, Bosc, Clairgeau, Howell, 

 Vermont Beauty, Anjou, Duchess (Angouleme), Kieffer. 

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