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270 YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



TERRY APPLE. 



(SYNONYMS: Terry Winter; Terry's Winter; Terry Winter Pippin.) 

 [PLATE XXXIII.] 



In the gradual extension of apple culture southward from the 

 regions where this popular fruit is recognized as thoroughly at home 

 arid in congenial adjustment with climatic conditions, fruit growers 

 have long sought for varieties that would at the same time endure 

 long summers and intermittent winters and yield fruit that would be 

 comparable in keeping quality with that of the more northern winter 

 varieties when grown in their native climes. A few early sorts, 

 particularly those of Russian origin-, such as Red Astrachan and 

 Oldenburg, endure Southern conditions well, but long-keeping winter 

 apples, of good dessert quality, adapted to the South, are few in 

 number. Practically all that are now grown in a commercial way in 

 the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions of the South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States are of American origin, most of them tracing to origins 

 below latitude 37 N. Among such may be mentioned Shockley, 

 Yates, and Hall, all of which have been found to succeed through a 

 wide range of climatic and soil conditions in the South. 



Of similar character and very promising for Southern apple growers 

 is the Terry, which is illustrated on PL XXXIII. This variety 

 appears to have originated as a seedling on the farm of a Mr. Terrv, 

 in Fulton County, Ga. Mr. Terry called the attention of a nursery- 

 man, the late James Sneed, of Morrow, Clayton County, Ga., to 

 the character of the tree and fruit, and in 1868 Mr. Sneed cut scions 

 from it and began propagating it under the name "Terry Winter," 

 planting 33 trees of the variety in his own orchard. a 



In 188-i Mr. S. M. Wayman, upon settling at Pomona, Ga., found 

 trees of the variety in a local nursery there, the stock of which had 

 come from the Sneed nursery, in Clayton County. He was so much 

 pleased with the variety when it came into bearing that he began 

 propagating it on an extensive scale, both for planting in his own 

 commercial orchard and for sale to other planters under the name 

 :c Terry Winter Pippin.'" 6 In 1885 Mr. W. D. Beatie found the 

 variety in the Cole nursery near Atlanta, which he bought in that year. 

 He continued to propagate it, and appears to have been the first to 

 catalogue it about 1885 or 1886. Since that time it has been very 

 generally disseminated throughout Georgia and neighboring States. 

 It appears worthy of general testing, both as a commercial variety and 

 for the family orchard throughout the South and in similar warm 

 regions where good keeping sorts of fine quality are few in number. 



"Letter of J. C. H. Sneed, January 7, 1904. 



& Letters of H. M. Waynian, December, 1899, and January, 1904. 



