THE APPLE. 187 



Another point of the utmost import is that it demonstrates that 

 there is a field for the southern apple, which is one of the aims of this 

 article to show. I firmly believe that the first yield, or early part of 

 the crop, of the southern apple may find in any year something of a 

 market North and West, and in failure of the apple crop there a con- 

 siderable market, and that all the time the South will furnish a 

 market for southern raised fall and winter apples and largely sup- 

 plant the apples of these seasons raised North and West, and now 

 consumed so largely South. I have more than conjecture for this, 

 because some years ago, while on a tour of investigation in the 

 mountains of North and South Carolina, I found luscious home- 

 raised apples selling everywhere, and, my impression is, to the 

 almost (if not altogether) exclusion of northern apples. 



As to summer apples South, one may say that almost everywhere 

 the favorite northern varieties do well. Certainly as low as (if not 

 below) latitude 31 degrees, except, perhaps, Western Texas. For 

 some inexplicable reason, some varieties that do well in one locality 

 seem not to do at all in other places where they might be expected to 

 succeed. Thus you will find, for illustration, the Red Astrachan, 

 Summer Queen, Early Harvest and Red June highly commended 

 where the Yellow June or Early Strawberry are not. 



In the year 1873, Dr. H. A. Swayse, D. Redmond and myself 

 were sent as delegates from the Louisiana Fruit-Growers' Associa- 

 tion to the quarter-centennial meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society, held at Boston, Mass., in September. There we made a 

 report of the fruits adapted to what we deemed the association or its 

 territory. It is not necessary to inform the older horticulturists of 

 the country who Messrs. Swayse and Redmond were. Suffice it to 

 say that they were practical men, and had a national reputation. 

 At that date we made this report as to apples : "We would recom- 

 mend Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Carolina Red June, Primate, 

 Garretson's Early, Yellow June, Early Strawberry, Bevan, Golden 

 Sweet, American Summer Pearmain, Rhodes' Orange, Bruce's 

 Summer, Yellow Horse, Cane Creek Sweet, Bachelor, Taunton, 

 Hoover, and Carter." 



After years of investigation, over enlarged territory, I added to 

 these a list in my book ( "The New South," Manufacturer's Record, 

 1887,) the following list, found on page 281: "Summer Striped 

 June, Sweet Bough, Early Red Margaret, Hames, Carolina Watson, 

 Family, Julian, Aromatic Cheese, Stanley's Seedling. Autumn 

 Bonum, Yopp's Favorite, Pennsylvania Cider, Tuscaloosa Seedling, 

 Mamma, Philippi, Lawren's Greening, Carter's Blue, Buncombe, 

 Junaluskee, Maverick Sweet, Yates, Ben Davis, Disharoon, Carolina 

 Greening. Winter Ferdinand, Cannon, Pearmain, Oconee Green- 

 ing, Moultries, Nickajack, Hockett Sweet, Stevenson's Winter, 

 Holly, Pryor's Red, Stansil. Shockley, Romanite, Santa, Limbertwig. 

 Cider apples Dean Crab, Hewes' Virginia Crab." 



Last summer I spent quite a while on the southern branch of the 

 Illinois Central Railroad, in the great fruit and vegetable centers of 

 Crystal Springs, Terry, Madison, et al. There I got much informa- 



