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Fruit-growing in Arid Regions 



The Newtown Pippins, both Green and Yellow, are very 

 susceptible to soil properties, and the areas in which they 

 are at all satisfactory are very limited. For this reason 

 they are not much grown outside of favored localities in 



FIG. 61. A Newtown Pippin Orchard. North Yakima, Washington. 



Washington and Oregon (Figs. 60, 61), yet they have been 

 known to grow and bear well on a rocky hillside and 

 almost refuse to bear on heavy or medium heavy lands. 

 The Ben Davis group, which includes Gano and Black 

 Ben Davis, is cosmopolitan in its adaptation, as it sue- 



