14 . APPLE GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 



CHAPTER II. 



VARIETIES. 



It is interesting to note in connection with, first choice of varieties 

 in answer to question No. 12 (Name your leading varieties in the order 

 of their importance), that one man, reporting from Butte County, 

 places Black Ben first. Four reporting from El Dorado and no two 

 agreeing gave their first choice as follows: Rome Beauty, Esopus, 

 Baldwin and Button. One man from Fresno reports Fameuse as his 

 first choice. Humboldt County is represented by six growers, giving 

 their first choice as Wagener, King, Esopus, Yellow Bellflower, and two 

 favored Rhode Island Greening. Two reports from Madera County 

 were received, both giving Winter Pearmain as the leading variety for 

 this section. In Mendocino County the following varieties are said to 

 be the best by four who answered the questions : Jonathan, Swaar, King 

 and Baldwin. One report from Monterey County places the Yellow 

 Newt own first. Eleven orchardists reported from Riverside County, 

 giving a leading place to the following: King David, Esopus, Rhode 

 Island Greening, three favored Rome Beauty and five Delicious. Eight 

 orchardists were heard from in San Bernardino County, one giving the 

 Jonathan first place, two Winesap and five Rome Beauty. From San 

 Diego County nine reports came, one giving Jonathan as the leading 

 variety, one Julian Duchess, one Paragon, three Yellow Newtown, and 

 three Yellow Bellflower. As would naturally be expected, only two 

 varieties were given first place by nine of the leading orchardists report- 

 ing from Santa Cruz County; six favored the Yellow Newtown and 

 three the Yellow Bellflower. 



The second county in importance from the standpoint of produc- 

 tion, viz, Sonoma, is represented in these answers by eleven growers, 

 eight of whom favor the Gravenstein, one the Alexander, one the Rome 

 Beauty and one the Yellow Newtown. One report from Tehama County 

 gives the Yellow Newtown first place. 



The following is a complete list of the varieties, arranged alphabet- 

 ically as they were sent in, making a total of forty-eight in all, reported 

 upon. Brief descriptions of twenty of these and illustrations of nine of 

 the best follow, also a supplementary list of varieties not reported upon 

 by growers, but most of which the writer has seen growing somewhere 

 in the state, and which are recommended for trial lay those who are 

 experimenting with varieties. Thus a total of seventy-two varieties. 

 not including the lists of summer varieties and crabs, is given. This 

 contains practically all varieties commonly found, and it is hoped may 

 serve as a guide in the selection of suitable kinds for future planting 

 by some to whom this book may find its way. 



