YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Such changes in conditions as have been mentioned necessarily 

 have an important bearing on the question of varieties, and their 

 influence must continue until the attainable degree of perfection in 

 varieties to meet the more important demands is reached. More- 

 over, in the case of such fruits as the avocado, the mango, and some 

 others, the commercial culture of which is comparatively new, there 

 are as yet but few varieties in cultivation in this country. As the 

 market demand for these newer fruits increases and their culture 

 becomes of greater commercial importance, new and better varieties 

 or varieties better adapted to commercial needs will in all probability 

 be developed. 



The Department of Agriculture has no stock for dissemination of 

 any of the varieties referred to in this paper. 



EASTMAN APPLE. 



SYNONYMS : Fameuse Seedling, Fameuse No. 1, Patten's Fameuse. 



[PLATE I.] 



EARLY HISTORY. 







The pioneer attempts at fruit growing in northern Iowa early 

 demonstrated that the varieties with which the early settlers were 

 familiar in their old homes in the East were not hardy enough to 

 withstand the dry, cold winters characteristic of a large portion of 

 the upper Mississippi Valley. 



The Eastman apple is of interest in pomology not only because of 

 its merit as a variety, but because it is one of the results of a defi- 

 nitely planned effort to develop varieties adapted to the peculiar 

 needs of this region. It originated at Charles City, Iowa, from a 

 seed of a Fameuse apple which was planted in the spring of 1874 

 by Mr. Charles G. Patten. The pollen parent of the Eastman is un- 

 known, but the apple from which the seed was obtained grew in Mr. 

 Patten's orchard at Charles City, where there were also growing 

 trees of the St. Lawrence, Oldenburg, and Wealthy apples. The 

 Eastman is, therefore, probably a cross between the Fameuse and 

 one of these varieties. 1 



This variety was first offered to the trade in the spring of 1884. 

 and the synonyms named above were used at various times by Mr. 

 Patten in his catalogues. But, as none of these names seemed to be 

 suitable^ he subsequently applied the name " Eastman " in honor of 

 Mr. P. S. Eastnian, formerly of Iowa but now residing at Berkeley, 

 Cal., who supplied the Oldenburg apple from a seed of which the 

 Patten 2 (Patten Greening) apple originated. 



1 Letters from Mr. Charles G. Patten, October and November, 1912. 



2 For description and illustration, see Yearbook, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, for 1908, 

 p. 474. 



