4 BULLETIN 172, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



a seedling of Van Buren ; and Surprise, a seedling from an orchard of 

 several named varieties. It is true some other varieties have been 

 used more or less extensively in breeding work, but their progeny has 

 either not been named or has not been disseminated sufficiently for 

 their names to occur in nursery literature, and, so far as definite in- 

 formation is available, few varieties seem to be more than two gener- 

 ations from the wild. This condition is probably very different from 

 what has taken place in the development of European varieties, a 

 large number of which are doubtless several, probably many, gener- 

 ations removed from their original wild progenitor. 



VARIETIES CLASSIFIED BY SPECIES. 1 



CLASSIFIED VARIETIES. 



PRUOTJS NIGRA. 



Aitkin; Anderson No. 2; August; *Branden Ruby; ^Canadian Apricot; Carstesen; 

 Cheney; *Cherry; Crimson; *Eureka; Hanson; Itasca; Manitoba; Manitoba No. 4; 

 *Mills Seedling; *Native Red; Odegard; Oxford; R. B. Whyte Nos. 1, 4, and 5; Smith 

 Red; Snelling; Wazata. 



PRTTNTJS AMERICANA. 



*Admiral Schley; Advance; Alexander; Alexander Late; *Allen; Alpha-Americana 

 Anderson; *Anna; *Annual Bearer; *Apple; *Apricot; Atkins; Bailey; Baldwin 

 *Baraboo; *Barnsback; *Bean; Bender; Benson Market; *Berry Hill; *Beta No. 4 

 *Birchland; Bixby; Blackhawk; Bomberger; Bossland; Bounder; Brackett; *Brainerd 

 Brooklyn; Bruning; BruningNo. 2; Bryan; *Budd; Burdick; California; ^Campbell (?) 

 *Canary; Caneford; Captain Bacon; *Captain Watrous; *Caroline; Champion; Cher 

 okee; *Chippewa; *Christie; City; Coinage; Colhnan; Colorado Queen; Comfort 

 Comptine; Cottrell; *Couler; *Crable; Craig; *Cyclone; Dahlgreen; Dakota; Daven- 

 port; Deepcreek; Dennis; Des Moines; De Soto; *Dewey; *Diamond; Diana; Dor- 

 othy (?); Douglas; Dunlap No. 1; *Dunlap Nut; *Early Minnesota; Early Vermont; 

 Eaton; Eddie; *Edith; Eldorado; *Eldridge; *Emerson; Emma; Etta; Fairchild; 

 Fitzroy; *Flora Plena; Forest Garden; ^Freestone; Galena; *Gamma No. 6 (?); ^Garden 

 King; *Gates; Gaylord; *Gaylord Gold; Gem; *Goff; Gold (not the Gold of Stark 

 Bros.); *Gold Coin; *Gold Colored; Golden Mammoth; Golden Queen; Grace; Guil- 

 ford; *Guinea Egg; Haag; Harrison; *Harrison Large Red; Hart; Hartwick; *Harvest 

 Hawkeye; Heaton; Hiawatha; *Hillside; Hilltop; *Hilman; *Hinckley; Holt; *Home- 

 stead; Honey; *Hoskins; Hunt De Soto; *Huya; Ida; ^Imperial; Iowa Beauty 

 Ironclad; Isaac; Isabella; Ivason; *Jessie; Joe Hooker; Jones; Jones Late; Julia 

 Kampeska; Kathrin; Keith; Kickapoo; Klondike; Knudson; Kober; Kopp; Lambert 

 Lang; *La Prairie; Large Red; Late Rollingstone; Le Due; *Legal Tender; ^Leonard 

 *Letta; Lillie; Little; Lizzie; Lockey; Lottie; Louisa; *Luedloff; *Luedloff Green 

 *Luedloff Red; Mackland; Macomber Nos. 1 and 2; ^Manitoba Nos. 1, 2, and 5 

 Mankato; Marais des Cygne; *Marble; Marcellus; Marcus; *Marion; *Marjorie 

 Mary; Maud Lacey; *McKinley; *Meadow; *Melon; Meyer; Miller; *Millett; *Mil- 

 lett Early Red; Millett T. T.; *Millett Very Early Red; Minnesota Seedling 

 Minnetonka; *M. J. De Wolf; Mollie; *Monon; Monona; Moon; Moore's No. 1 



1 No material of those varieties marked by an asterisk (*)lias been seen by the writer, and they are referred 

 to the species on the basis of available descriptions and information concerning their origin or on the 

 authority of some horticulturist who has seen the variety. A mark of interrogation (?) indicates that 

 positive identification could not be made. 



