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growth woolly; leaves often deeply indented; fruit green or later 

 yellowish; aromatic, hard, bitter, keeps through the winter; resem- 

 bles quince in quality, and is used, like the quince, for flavoring ap- 

 ple sauce and jellies. There are a few of these varieties in cultiva- 

 tion and among them are the Soulard and the Fluke. It does not 

 readily cross with the cultivated apple. 



Among cultivated varieties of apples we often find several that 

 closely resemble each other in fruit, foliage, and habit. Some of 

 these groups are as follows: (a) The Fameuse group includes: 

 Fameuse, Shiawassee Beauty, and Mclntosh. (6) The Duchess of 

 Oldenburg group includes : Duchess, Borovinka, Gilbert, and Char- 

 lamoff. (c) The Ben Davis group includes: Ben Davis, Gano, 

 Shockley, and Black Ben Davis. (U. S. E. S. B. 178.) 



Lists of Varieties Suited to Large Areas. As many of the de- 

 sirable varieties are extremely local in their range of adaptability, 

 it will not be possible to present a selected list that will be suited to 

 all sections of the country. It is the aim in making up the follow- 

 ing lists to include only varieties of known merit and to divide the 

 country into districts, or large areas, in which the conditions of soil, 

 climate, latitude, elevation, etc., are more or less adapted to the sorta 

 named in the several lists. From these lists the planter may select 

 such as are suitable for his own locality, bearing in mind the fact 

 that there are others within his reach that may be profitably added 

 to those here named. In the choice of varieties the planter should 

 be governed largely by the results and experiences of those who have 

 preceded him in his immediate vicinity. Two or three trees of each 

 of the earlier ripening varieties will afford sufficient fruit for any or- 

 dinary-sized family. Should the farmer desire to plant, in addi- 

 tion to his family orchard, varieties suitable for commercial pur- 

 poses, such are designated in these lists by an asterisk ; thus, *Bald- 

 win. The arrangement of the following lists is approximately in the 

 order of ripening : 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND STATES, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW 

 JERSEY, NORTHERN OHIO AMD INDIANA, AND MICHIGAN. 



For this district the following varieties are suggested : 



Tetofaki. Rambo. *Tompkins King. 



"Yellow Transparent. Porter. Domine. 



Early Harvest. Mother. Wine. 



*Eed Astrachan. Melon. "Northern Spy. 



Red June. Fall Pippin. Sutton. 



'Oldenburg, Duchess of. Bailey Sweet. Wagener. 



Golden Sweet. Jacobs Sweet. Esopus Spitzenburg. 



Trenton Early. Fameuse. *Rome Beauty. 



Redtsripe. Shiawassee "Beauty. Roxbury Eusset. 



Early Strawberry. Wealthy. *Baldwin. 



Early Joe. "Grimes Golden. *Ben Davis. 



BenonL "Jonathan. *Rhode Island Greening. 



Primate. Romanstem. "Stark. 



Maiden Blush. Westfield. "Winesap. 



Gravenstein. Red Canada. "York Imperial. 



Fall Wine. Smokehouse. Lansingburg. 



Jefferis. Delicious. "Yellow Newtown.a 



Jersey Sweet. Hubbardston Nonsuch. 



