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AMERICAN POMOLOGY. 



attempted to make out lists that would be applicable to 

 the whole country, but it was very soon discovered that 

 their recommendations were by no means of universal 

 application, and that what was valuable in one section 

 was worthless in another. The State and local societies 

 took up the work, and the result of their labors has been 

 of great value to persons similarly situated. In some 

 States, regions, with peculiar soils and different under- 

 lying rocks, were found to be more or less fitted for the 

 production of different varieties, and partial or local lists 

 have been made out upon this principle. The greater 

 value of the data thus obtained commended 'itself to the 

 National Society, which has since collated these lists so 

 far as possible in a tabular form, which shows the relative 

 appreciation in which many varieties are held in the sev- 

 eral regions that have reported ; to these the reader is re- 

 ferred.* At present I propose to present a few lists which 

 have been given by eminent pomologists, in different parts 

 of the country, as the result of their extended observa- 

 tions, and applicable in their several districts. 



Henry Little and others recommend for Maine : 



Baldwin, 



Blue Pearmain, 



Bough, 



Danvers, 



Duchess of Oldenhurgh, 



Fameuse, 



Golden Ball, 



Golden Sweet, 



Gravenstein, 



Hubbardston, 



Jewett's Fine Red, 



Minister, 



Mother, 



Northern Spy, 



Porter, 



Red Astrachan, 



Rhode Island Greening, 



Ribstone Pippin, 



Roxbury Russet, 



Sops of Wine, 



Tallman Sweet, 



Vandervere (Newtown Spitzenberg), 



Vermont, 



Williams' Favorite, 



Winthrop. 



* See Reports of American Pomological Society. 



