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Considering the diagrams and the fignres given in the table, 

 we find that in the extreme northeast the Ben Davis is mnch 

 elongated, and as we go south and west it becomes less elongated 

 and more flattened, till we reach West Virginia and Kentucky, 

 where it becomes a decidedly oblate apple. In the Ozarks it is 

 a little longer, and in southern California still longer, and in 

 British Columbia it is almost as much elongated as in Nova 

 Scotia and neighboring regions. This noticeable elongation of 

 the apples from Belleville, Ont., as compared with those from 

 Guelph, is significant, as Belleville is located not far from the 

 north shore of Lake Erie, while Guelph is some miles inland. 

 The same influence is perhaps shown in the Vermont lot, though 

 the figures for those of Quebec and Massachusetts, which serve to 

 bring this out, are themselves in some degree exceptions to the 

 general rule that the apples are longer as one goes north. 

 Nevertheless, it seems reasonable to conclude that, beginning in 

 the southern Allegheny mountains and in southern California, 

 and going north, the apples become more elongated, and that 

 this elongation is much more pronounced in the vicinity of large 

 bodies of water, either salt or fresh. 



The comparison of apples from the same orchard both years 

 shows reasonably close agreement in most cases. Several, how- 

 ever, are quite different. It will be noted that these are among 

 the extremes of form. The maritime provinces and the Pacific 

 coast, that furnished extremely long apples in 1907, gave shorter 

 ones in 1908, and the extremely flattened ones from West Vir- 

 ginia were longer. On the other hand, those near the avertij^'e 

 form show very slight differences. Professor Sears states that 

 in Nova Scotia there are two types of Ben Davis that differ much 

 in both tree and fruit. The fruit of one generally approaches 

 an oblong form, while the other is more conic. Most of the 

 Nova Scotia apples of 1907 were of the former type, while those 

 of 1908 were more like the latter. The same would apply in 

 some degree to those from Prince Edward Island. Both lots 

 were the run of the orchard, no selection whatever being made. 

 It is possible that the difference in the forms of these apples in 

 the two years may be due to their representing these different 

 types. 



The ap]>l('S from Quebec are flatler tlian those from farther 



