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inferior quality. The Ilussian varieties as a class are reputed 

 to be of poor quality. They are not of the highest quality, but 

 much of their reputation for inferiority results, in our opinion, 

 from their being grown too far south. As a class they belong to 

 the northern frontier of apple growing, and when grown there, 

 many of them are equal to the better varieties of the more 

 southern apple regions. 



Maiden Blush. — This variety is a fall sort, originating in 

 Burlington, IST. J., in which State it has attained its highest 



Fig. 8. 



favor. It is grown with success as far north as Long Island 

 and southern Connecticut, and west through southern Indiana 

 and central and southern Illinois. It does not withstand the 

 dry climate of the plains as well as some others, but reaches as 

 far west as eastern Nebraska and Kansas. It is cultivated suc- 

 cessfully south into the mountains of Virginia. Gould says : — 



On Cecil sandy loam, at 900 to 1.000 feet elevation, it is inclined to rot 

 severely, but on the more clayey soil of the Piedmont regions it does well. 

 Its season of ripening varies considerably, ranging from summer to early 

 fall. In the middle Piedmont orchards it would probably ripen in 

 August or early September. At one point in North Carolina having an 

 altitude of 3,500 to 4,000 feet, with rather less friable loam, some very 

 fine s]iecimens have been seen the middle of October.^ 



1 Bureau of Plant Industry Bulletin 135, p. 38. 



