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in the increasing respect shown to such secondary 

 sorts as Mcintosh, Rome Beauty and Duchess. 



Baldwin still reigns supreme in New England and 

 leads everything else in New York state. Outside 

 this section it is hardly known. It is exactly the apple 

 for the ordinary man. It is an ordinary apple. 



Rhode Island Greening belongs to the same section 

 as Baldwin and is still a favorite apple, especially in 

 the New York city market. But it is losing favor with 

 growers on account of scalding in storage. It is not 

 much planted nowadays, though it still deserves to be. 



Northern Spy belongs to a zone slightly to the 

 north of the Baldwin district, thriving in northern 

 Massachusetts, central ]Maine, New Hampshire and 

 Vermont, northern New York and in certain districts 

 in Michigan and Ontario. It is very fastidious as 

 regards soil. It will succeed splendidly on one farm 

 and fail on the next. It is very slow to come into 

 bearing and does not bear heavily even at maturity. 

 Nevertheless the unsurpassed quality of the fruit and 

 the high price which it brings in the market make it 

 worth the attention of those who can grow it well. 



Ben Davis is grown everywhere where apples will 

 grow at all, and is everywhere profitable. However, 

 it does not pay so well as Baldwin or Spy or Grimes 

 or a dozen other varieties in the hands of men who 

 can grow the better varieties. It is, generally speak- 

 ing, suited to men whose system of orchard manage- 

 ment does not reach a high standard. This is true 

 even in the Mississippi valley states, where Ben Davis 

 ic- most at home. 



Gano will succeed almost anywhere that Ben Davis 

 will. It is very much like Ben Davis, being distin- 



