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saiikee. The survey shows this is the stronghokl of the variety for the 

 state, 8 per cent of the trees of Belknap County being Spy and 4 per 

 cent of those in Carroll County. Likewise in Gi-afton, Coos, and Ches- 

 hire County there are 5 per cent of trees of this variety. In resistance 

 to cold the Northern Spy is much superior to Baldwin and probably is 

 a])i)roximately on a par with the Delicious. The residents of the north- 

 ern counties of New Hampshire use good judgment in i)lanting it. 



Wagener ranks fourth in commercial plantings among the winter var- 

 ieties, and se\enth when fall sorts are also considered. However, most 

 of the trees of this \-ariety have been planted as fillers, nearly 70 per 

 cent of the bearing trees and three-fourths of the non-bearing trees be- 

 ing so classified. There are large differences of oi)inion among New 

 Hampshire fruil growers as to the desirability of tlu> Wagener \ariety. 

 On the whole, those who are serving the local market, selling either 

 directly to the consuiiKM- or to the retail store, find that Waginun' is an 

 excellent variety to sell after the Mcintosh season. It keeps well and 

 has a better dessert quality than Baldwin. On the other hand, on 

 account of irregular shape and poor color this variety does not meet 

 with ready sale on the wholesah- market and returns for several sea- 

 sons have been lower than on the other winter sorts. It has been ad- 

 mirably adapted to use as a filler because of its habit of bearing at a 

 \-ery early age. The commercial fruit grower has been inclined to look 

 fa\orably upon it because it is abotU the only vari(>ty of fill(>r which 

 is a winter apple. Its planting for the wholesale market at tlie present 

 time is scarcely to be encouraged. The commercial croj) is now \ery 

 small, but may be expected to increase materially becau.se more than 

 SO per cent of the trees are still under 10 years of age. Early b(\u-ing 

 is indicated because only about 44 per cent are non-bearing. In \iew 

 of the indifferent success with which it is marketed today, it does not 

 aiipear good policy to plant it to any large extent. The variety is found 

 about iHiually distribut(>d in the different sections excei)t that it consti- 

 tutes 6 per cent of the trees of Carroll County. 



On the average 30 jier cent of New Hampshire apple trees are of fall 

 \arieties, mostly Mcintosh, Wealthy and Gravenstein. The trees are 

 young and as yet produce only about 15 per cent of the cro]). The pro- 

 l)ortion of fall sorts is relati\ely constant in the different ('ounties. Mer- 

 rimack being lowest with 20 per cent, and Grafton highest with 51 per 

 cent. One might expect more of the relatively hardy fall varieties to 

 ho planted in the northern counties, but in general this is not the case. 



Among fall varieties Mcintosh is the out.standing leader, constituting 

 about 20 per cent of the total trees of the state and ranking in commer- 

 cial imi)ortance next to Baldwin. In most of the counties the proportion 

 of Mcintosh trees is almost identical with the average for the state. 

 Grafton County is highest with 37 per cent, most of these in a very few 

 l)lantations. Coos County is lowest with 6 per cent. In this territory, 

 where the variety would be of greatest value, the farmers are not well 

 informed as to its hardiness and other merits or else fear scab, because 



