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from the plateaus of Georgia and Alabama on the south to Quebec and Nova 

 Scotia on the north and east. On the Pacific Slope it succeeds well from 

 the south-central portion of California to British Columbia. Between 

 these regions it is grown more or less between parallels 33 and 46 degrees 

 north latitude, except where the moisture is insufficient. With proper 

 selection of varieties and care, good home orchards or moderate-sized 

 commercial plantings can be grown successfully over practically all this 

 region. The range of the crabs extends farther north. 



Propagation. — Apples are propagated by root or whip grafting in 



Well Located 'Apple Orchard. 1 



winter on whole or piece roots, by crown grafting in the spring or by 

 budding in late summer or early autumn. There is little or no difference 

 between these methods so far as the growth of the resulting trees in the 

 orchard is concerned. 



The seeds to produce the roots used as stocks come largely from France, 

 though some are also produced in Vermont. The former come from the 

 so-called French crab, which is nothing but the wild native apple or Pyrus 

 mains of France. The seedlings from them are produced chiefly in the 

 soil of the Kansas River Valley. 



In the central northwest these stocks are not sufficiently hardy, and 



1 Courtesy of The Macmillan Company, N. Y. From " How to Choose a Farm," by Hunt. 



