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Not decidedly rich, but flavor full and acceptable. Excellent keeping quali- 

 ties. Chiefly grown in Sonoma and Napa counties. 



Lawton. Seedling on place of Mrs. F. H. Lawton, one-half mile north of 

 Sebastopol, Sonoma county. More symmetrical than Belmont or Waxen. Very 

 promising show variety. 



Tabular Showing of Adaptations. In preparation for this edi- 

 tion the writer undertook special inquiry to secure information 

 from growers as to what their choice would be if they were to 

 plant apples as explained in Chapter XVI. The result is a large 

 shrinkage in the list of varieties which are now thought to be 

 worth planting in the different parts of the State. 



An attempt is made to district the State for the apple, and for 

 the other fruits which follow, in accordance with the scheme of 

 climatic divisions described in Chapter I. This groups regions of 

 nearest resemblance, and is more rational than any prescription 

 according to county lines can be, for though some counties lie 

 wholly in one climatic division, many more counties extend through 

 two, and some even through three, such divisions. It is, therefore, 

 a more promising proposition to encourage planters in any locality 

 to study their climatic adaptations, not with regard to county lines 

 but rather as related to the conditions of elevation, exposure to 

 ocean influences and other factors which characterize natural belts, 

 or areas, of similar horticultural fitness. The only instances in 

 which these agencies are grouped geographically, is in constituting 

 southern California a division by itself. This is a recognition of 

 the fact that though in southern California coast and interior 

 differences clearly exist, they are not so marked, until the devel- 

 opment of the Colorado river region began, as they are in the upper 

 portions of the State, and there is consequently less marked con- 

 trast in suitability to various fruits. This concession to the south 

 as sui generis also escapes, or answers instead of a third division 

 of coast valleys, for the older fruit districts of southern California 

 have a mollified or subdued coast climate, their region of strictly 

 interior valley and foot-hill climate being restricted by the fact 

 that practically almost all their cultivated area, until recently, lay 

 south and west of their high mountains. It is an interesting fact 

 that the California coast climates north and south show much 

 greater contrasting conditions than do the interior valley regions, 

 north and south, and southern California being so largely in the 

 coast class could on this basis of wide coast variations claim a 

 distinctive designation, though it could hardly be granted on the 

 comparison of interior valley characters throughout the State. 

 Just what effect the development of fruit growing in the great 

 interior valley of southern California, which is irrigated from the 

 Colorado river, will have upon the future re-classification of the 

 horticultural divisions of the State can not now be determined for 

 the planting of all kinds of fruit is but now beginning. 



