4 BULLETIN 172, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



a seedling of Van Buren; and Surprise, a seedling from an orchard of 

 several named varieties. It is true some other varieties have been 

 used more or less extensively in breeding work, but their progeny has 

 either not been named or has not been disseminated sufficiently for 

 their names to occur in nursery literature, and, so far as definite in- 

 formation is available, few varieties seem to be more than two gener- 

 ations from the wild. This condition is probably very different from 

 what has taken place in the development of European varieties, a 

 large number of which are doubtless several, probably many, gener- 

 ations removed from their original wild progenitor. 



VARIETIES CLASSIFIED BY SPECIES.^ 



CLASSIFIED VARIETIES. 



PEUNTJS NIGRA. 



Aitkin; Anderson No. 2; August; *Branden Ruby; *Canadian Apricot; Carstesen; 

 Cheney; *Cherry; Crimson; *Eureka; Hanson; Itasca; Manitoba; Manitoba No. 4; 

 *Mills Seedling; *Native Red; Odegard; Oxford; R. B. ^\*hyte Nos. 1, 4, and 5; Smith 

 Red; Snelling; Wazata. 



PKUNTS AMERICANA. 



*Admiral Schley; Advance; Alexander; Alexander Late; *Allen; Alpha-Americana; 

 Anderson; *Anna; *Annual Bearer; *Apple; *Apricot; Atkins; Bailey; Baldwin; 

 *Baraboo; *Bamsback; *Bean; Bender; Benson Market; '^Berry Hill; *Beta No. 4; 

 *Birchland; Bixby; Blackhawk; Bomberger; Bossland; Bounder; Brackett; *Brainerd; 

 Brookh-n; Bruning; BruningNo. 2; Bryan; *Budd; Burdick; California; *CampbeiI (?); 

 *Canarj'; Caneford; Captain Bacon; *Captain Watrous; *Caroline; Champion; Cher- 

 okee; *Chippewa; *Christie; City; Coinage; Collman; Colorado Queen; Comfort; 

 Comptine; Cottrell; *Couler; *Crable; Craig; *Cjxlone; Dahlgreen; Dakota; Daven- 

 port; Deepcreek; Dennis; Des Moines; De Soto; *Dewey; ^Diamond; Diana; Dor- 

 othy(?); Douglas; Dunlap No. 1; *Dunlap Nut; *Early Minnesota; Early Vermont; 

 Eaton; Eddie; *Edith; Eldorado; *Eldridge; *Emerson; Emma; Etta; Fairchild; 

 Fitzroy; *Flora Plena; Forest Garden; *Freestone; Galena; *Gamma No. 6 (?); *Garden 

 King; *Gates; Gaylord; *Gaylord Gold; Gem; *Goff; Gold (not the Gold of Stark 

 Bros.); *Gold Coin; *Gold Colored; Golden Mammoth; Golden Queen; Grace; Guil- 

 ford; *Guinea Egg; Haag; Harrison; *Harrison Large Red; Hart; Hartwick; *Harvest; 

 Hawkeye; Heaton; Hiawatha; *Hillside; Hilltop; *Hilman; *Hinckley; Holt; *Home- 

 Btead; Honey; *Hoskins; Hunt De Soto; *Huya; Ida; *Imperial; Iowa Beauty; 

 Ironclad; Isaac; Isabella; Ivason; ^Jessie; Joe Hooker; Jones; Jones Late; Julia; 

 Kampeska; Kathrin; Keith; Kickapoo; Klondike; Knudson; Kober; Kopp; Lambert; 

 Lang; *La Prairie; Large Red; Late Rollingstone; Le Due; *Legal Tender; ^Leonard; 

 *Letta; Lillie; Little; Lizzie; Lockey; Lottie; Louisa; *Luedloff; *Luedloff Green; 

 *Luedloff Red; Mackland; Macomber Nos. 1 and 2; *Manitoba Nos. 1, 2, and 5; 

 Mankato; Marais dea Cygne; *Marble; Marcellus; Marcus; *Marion; *MarJ9rie; 

 Marj^; Maud Lacey; *McKinley; ^Meadow; *Melon; Meyer; Miller; *Millett; *Mil- 

 lett Early Red; Millett T. T.; *Millett Very Early Red; Minnesota Seedling; 

 Minnetonka; *M. J. De Wolf; Mollie; *Monon; Monona; Moon; Moore's No. 1; 



1 No material of those varieties marked by an asterisk () has been seen by the writer, and they are referred 

 to the species on the basis of available descriptions and information concerning their origin or on the 

 authority of some horticulturist who has seen the variety. A mark of interrogation (?) indicates that 

 positive identification could not be made. 



