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Other sections of California, and of other states, have specialized also, 

 and we think of Watsonville in connection with her Yellow Newtown 

 Pippins and Yellow Belltlowers; Hood River, Oregon, has been made 

 famous by her Spitzenbergs, and so we might name a great many cases 

 of success in the apple world due to specializing in the growing of 

 certain well-adapted varieties. 



Fig. 367. — Prize winning Alexanders, 

 Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple Show. 

 ( Original. ) 



Lesson to Other Sections. 



Other sections may not be able to grow the Gravenstein, the Yellow 

 Newtown, the Yellow Belltlower, or the Spitzenberg sueeessfully, but 

 there may be still other eciually as good varieties that will grow to 

 perfection. The time has passed when the orchardist can grow a miscel- 

 laneous lot of varieties, a little of this and a little of that, and succeed 

 from a commercial standpoint. In the early days of orcharding in 

 California, this was done, partly because it was not tlien known what 

 varieties would do the l)est, and partly because an unlimited market 

 was at the disposal of all. In this day of keen competition in the fruit 

 business, it is necessary to produce the best and in sufficient (juantity 

 to be able to dispose of carload lots of one variety. Recently, the 

 writer visited certain sections of the State where each man who grows 

 apples is trying to succeed with a great many varieties, caring not what 

 his neighbor may be growing. With the lesson of Sebastopol before us, 



