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with confidence; about thirty per cent only 

 are positively known to be in existence at this 

 time. 



Aside from the rejection of obsolete names 

 and of a number of uncertain ones, the 

 revisions in Warder's list, as printed below, 

 have been very slight. In a few cases names 

 have been simplified somewhat. In a very 

 few instances the classification has been 

 altered. The writer feels that it would be 

 desirable to make an entire restudy of the 

 subject ; but since the presentation here given 

 is intended merely to be an illustration of the 

 methods of taxonomic pomology, and not to 

 be a fresh monograph of the apples, this 

 treatment can doubtless be excused. 



In the addition of new names to the list the 

 writer has followed the " Revised Catalogue 

 of Fruits of the American Pomological So- 

 ciety," circulated as a bulletin of the Division 

 of Pomology, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The student will notice that in the follow- 

 ing classification some varieties appear in two 

 different places. This is because the charac- 

 teristics of a given variety are not always con- 

 stant. Bellflower, for instance, is regular 



