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for culinary use, and are all early bearers. For dessert use, the Early 

 Harvest, Benoni, Maiden Blush, Gravenstein and Jefferis cover about the 

 same season and are almost as widely adapted, at least for home orchards. 



For the later varieties, more attention should be given to the section in 

 which they are to be grown. In the general belt from New England to 

 Ontario and Michigan, the Mcintosh, Hubbardston, Northern Spy, 

 Tompkins King, Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening and Roxbury are the lead- 

 ing sorts, although many others are also grown. This is known as the 

 Baldwin belt. The varieties in it and those later are named approximately 

 in order of maturity. 



In the next area south, extending roughly from New Jersey and Vir- 

 ginia to Kansas and Oklahoma, the leaders are Grimes, Jonathan, Rome 

 Beauty, Stayman Winesap, York Imperial, Ben Davis or Gano, Black-twig 

 or Paragon, and Winesap. It is known as the Winesap belt. The first two 

 or three varieties used in it are also frequently valuable in the Baldwin belt, 

 and vice versa. The Red Astrachan, Primate, Summer Ram bo, Fall 

 Pippin, Smokehouse and Delicious also do well in many parts of both of 

 these regions. 



Still farther south, from North Carolina to Texas, the White Juneating, 

 Red June, Horse, Kinnard, Buckingham, Terry, Buncombe and Shockley 

 are the principal sorts. In the Colorado-Utah section, the leading varieties 

 are much the same as those in the Winesap belt, with the Summer Pear- 

 main, White Pearmain and Yellow Bellefleur in addition. 



In the central northwest, or the general district including Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota, the Dakotas and their immediate surroundings, only the 

 hardiest varieties will succeed. For this district the first three early varie- 

 ties named above are among the best. Others available are Tetofski, 

 Borovinka, Charlamoff, Alexander, Hibernal, Gideon, Peerless, Okabena, 

 Plumb Cider, Northwestern, Newell and Patten. This is rather a formi- 

 dable list, both in names and quality, but in the latter respect the Wealthy, 

 Peerless and Patten are best. 



For the favorable mountain valleys of western Montana, Idaho, 

 British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Nevada, the following varieties 

 are prominent in one or more sections: Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, Ortley, 

 Mcintosh, Grimes, Jonathan, Banana, Esopus, Wagener, Rome Beauty, 

 Stayman Winesap, Delicious, Winesap and Yellow Newtown. 



In California and northward along the coast, the more valuable sorts 

 are the Red Astrachan, Red June, Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, Grimes, 

 Jonathan, Esopus, Tompkins King, White and Blue Pearmains, Wagener, 

 Yellow Bellefleur, Missouri Pippin, Gano, Yellow Newtown and Winesap. 



These lists, supplemented with state and local inquiry to fit the immedi- 

 ate places concerned, should enable one to make satisfactory plantings 

 almost anywhere in the apple-growing region of North America. 



Purchase and Handling of Nursery Stock. — After deciding upon the 

 varieties, the best way to get the trees is by direct order from responsible 



