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America of those referred to this group by 

 Dr. Lucas. Perhaps Maiden Blush might 

 typify the group. 



Dr. Warder's Classification 



The work which has been done in America 

 in the classification of apples, as has already 

 been said, is meagre in the extreme. The 

 standard work of Downing attempts no clas- 

 sification beyond arranging the names of va- 

 rieties in alphabetical order. Thomas gave 

 a rough, arbitrary arrangement to the differ- 

 ent varieties of apples in his fruit book ;* but 

 the single important attempt at a classifica- 

 tion of apples was made by Dr. John A. 

 Warder, f This scheme was entirely arbi- 

 trary, but was an excellent classification of its 

 kind. It has all the convenience inherent in 

 the arbitrary method, and even to-day is very 

 useful to the working pomologist ; in fact, 

 it is the only available key which may assist 

 one in finding the name of an unknown apple. 

 The great draw r back to its use is that so many 

 of the varieties of to-day are not given in 



* Thomas, "American Fruit Culturist." New York. 

 Various editions. 



f Warder, " American Pomology," p. 379. Orange Judd 

 Co., New York, 1867. 



