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are good for something. This particular suitability or serviceability 

 may involve pomological considerations and commercial and manu- 

 facturing considerations as well. The planter must use these lists in 

 connection with what he may find about the varieties in subsequent 

 chapters, without neglecting to confer also with older growers in the 

 district in which he may plan to plant. 



Perhaps an intelligent use of the statement can be concretely sug- 

 gested by briefly discussing the first group of varieties mentioned the 

 apples most approved in California. First comes the yellow Newton 

 Pippin, and that means that most apples commercially grown are 

 winter apples and this variety is, on the whole, the most profitable of 

 them. But a planter in a hot interior valley should usually reject them, 

 for all winter apples are apt to be unsatisfactory, and, if he plants 

 apples at all, should choose early varieties, because they ripen early, 

 thus escaping the highest heat and at the same time being ready for 

 the early market. Similar comments might be made upon the varieties 

 of other fruits. 



During the year 1914 the writer had the advantage of revising all 

 his earlier data on varieties through association with Professor B. B. 

 Pratt, J. E. Coit, F. T. Bioletti and R. E. Smith as a committee of the 

 California Experiment Station to assist the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 in a revision of the variety list of the American Pomological Society, 

 and desires to gratefully acknowledge benefits from such association. 



The varieties grouped below are arranged not according to ripening 

 season but in the order in which the greatest number of growers con- 

 sider them worth planting : 



Apples. Newtown Pippin, Bellflower, E. Spitzenberg, W. W. 

 Pearmain, Gravenstein, Red Astracan, W. Astracan, R. I. Greening, 

 Rome Beauty, Jonathan, Winesap, White Astracan, Delicious, Arkan- 

 sas Black, Baldwin, Tompkins Co. King. 



Apricots. Royal, Blenheim, Moorpark, Tilton, Hemskirk, 

 Peach, Newcastle. 



Cherries. Royal Ann, Black Tartarian, Bing, Black Republican, 

 Lambert, Chapman, Purple Guigne, May Duke, Centennial, Black 

 Bigarreau. 



Peaches. Muir, Elberta, Phillips, Lovell, Salway, Early Craw- 

 ford, Tuskena, Foster, Late Crawford, Orange Cling, Susquehanna, 

 Sellers, Lemon, St. Johns, Henrietta, Hales, Alexander, Heath. 

 Triumph. 



Pears. Bartlett, Winter Nelis, Easter, Du Cornice, Glout 

 Morceau, Hardy, Barry, Comet, Seckel, Winter Bartlett, Wilder. 



Plums. Wickson, Burbank, Climax, Hungarian, Tragedy, 

 Kelsey, Yellow Egg, Red June, Giant, Washington, Satsuma, Jeffer- 

 son, Grand Duke, Santa Rosa, Clyman, Formosa. 



Prunes. French, Imperial, Sugar, Robe de Sergeant, Italian, 

 German, Standard, Silver, Splendor. 



Raisin and Shipping Grapes. Muscat, Tokay, Thompson, 

 Emperor, Malaga, Cornichon, Black Prince, Sultana, Black Morocco, 

 Sweet Water, Verdal, Gros Colman, Pierce. 



