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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



Best Sellers 



Best sellers as indicated by the largest number of nurserymen reporting a given 



variety. 



Jonathan 14 



Grimes 11 



Winesap - .- 10 



Rome Beauty S 



Baldwin 7 



Mcintosh 7 



Stayman 7 



Wagener 6 



Yellow Transparent 5 



Gano 5 



Spitzenburg 4 



Yellow Imperial 4 



Yellow Newtown 4 



Northern Spy 3 



Delicious 3 



Delicious 2 



M. B. Twig 2 



Arkansas Black 2 



Black Ben Davis 2 



Bonum 1 



Maiden Blush 1 



Wealthy 6 Ben Davis 3 N. W. Greening 1 



Table of Varieties Having tlie Highest Number of Recommendations 



Apples having the highest number of recommendations for districts and states. 

 This does not mean that these apples are necessarily best for every district; it simply 

 means that they do well in the greatest number of places. The numeral following 

 the name gives the number of recommendations according to the American Pomo- 

 logical Society. 



Red Astrachan 65 



Early Harvest 56 



Oldenberg 50 



Maiden's Blush .. 50 



Winesap 49 



Ben Davis 47 



Gravenstein - -- 43 



Fameuse 36 



Fall Pippin 35 



Sweet Bough 35 



Baldwin 34 



Jonathan 33 



Northern Spy 33 



Porter 32 



Ralls .Janet 32 



R. I. Greening 32 



Tolman Sweet : 32 



Yellow Belinower 31 



Sap of Wine 31 



None Such 30 



William's Favorite 29 



Summer Pearmain 29 



Golden Sweet . 29 



Smith's Cider 28 



Benoni . 28 



Ro.xbury Russet 27 



Rambo 27 



Primate 26 



Alexander 25 



Buckingham 25 



Grimes . 25 



L. Strawberry 25 



Peak's Pleasant 25 



Summer Rose 25 



Early Strawberry 24 



Mother .- 24 



Shockley i.4 



Twenty Ounce . 22 



Summer Queen 22 



Early Margaret 22 



Dyer 22 



Gilpin 21 



Golden Russet 21 



Hall 21 



Limbertwig 21 



Tompkins King 21 



Hoas (Horse) , .- 20 



Nickajack 20 



Wagener 20 



Willow Twig 20 



Hewes Crab 19 



Jersey Sweet 19 



Roman Stem 18 



Fallwater 18 



Rome Beauty 18 



High Top Sweet 18 



Wealthy .. 18 



Lowell 18 



Newtown Pippin 18 



Keswick Codlin 17 



Spitzenburg 17 



Canada Red 15 



York Imperial 13 



White Winter Pearmain 12 



Apples Recommended for Commercial Orchards in the United States and Canada 



J. L. DrM.\s 



The tendency for the orchardists of the country to select fewer varieties for 

 commercial plantings Is well illustrated by the attempt on the part of the revision 

 committee of the American Pomological Society to cut down the number of recom- 

 mendations to fifty. The attempt did not succeed, but the suggestions to the com- 

 mittee, made by air. J. L. Dumas, of Pullman, Washington, chairman of the com- 

 mittee, are given. 



Only 40 varieties are named, ten spaces being left blank to be supplied later. 



