PRINCIPAL APPLE -yARIETIES. 23 



Varieties. — The State Horticultural Society names the following 

 for the different districts: 



Northern district. — First degree of hardiness, Hibernal and Oldenburg; second 

 degree of hardiness, Anisim, Patten, and Wealthy. 



Central district. — Same as for the northern district, with Malinda added to 

 the second group. 



Southern district. — Anisim, Iowa Blush, Malinda, Northwestern, Oldenburg, 

 Patten, and Wealthy. 



Black Hills district. — Summer: Tetofski, Yellow Transparent, CharlamofC, and 

 Oldenburg. Fall : Wealthy, Okabena, Longfield, Wolf River, and Patten. Win- 

 ter : Mcintosh, Ben Davis, and Gano. 



The following varieties are also recommended for trial generally 

 throughout the State: Dudley, Iowa Beauty, Livland, Longfield, 

 Milwaukee, and Yellow Transparent. The Hibernal is especially 

 recommended as a hardy stock upon which to top-work other va- 

 rieties. 



NEBRASKA. 



Distribution. — Home orchards occur widely throughout a large 

 portion of Nebraska, but especially in the eastern half. The commer- 

 cial interests are quite definitely located in the southeastern section 

 and are largely in the following counties: Richardson, Pawnee, 

 Nemaha, Johnson, Gage, Otoe, Cass, and Lancaster (all south of the 

 Platte River) ; and Sarpy, Douglas, Saunders, Washington, and Burt 

 (north of the Platte and bordering on the Missouri River) . 



Varieties. — The principal commercial varieties are Arkansas, Ben 

 Davis, Gano, Grimes, Jonathan, Missouri, Wealthy, Winesap, and 

 Oldenburg. 



For general planting, the above-named varieties may be used in a 

 large portion of the State. The winter varieties in the list are the 

 ones commonly found in the home orchards. The State Horticultural 

 Society suggests for most sections the following: For early ripen- 

 ing — Benoni, Early Cooper, Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, and 

 Yellow Transparent. For fall ripening — Dyer, Maiden Blush, 

 Plumb Cider, and Utter. For sections where the conditions are 

 especially severe, the varieties named for the southern section of 

 South Dakota are suggested in the present connection. 



KANSAS. 



Distribution. — So far as the general distribtuion of apples in Kan- 

 sas is concerned, the conditions are not materially different from 

 those in Nebraska. There are two fairly well-defined regions of 

 commercial interest. One of these is in the northeastern corner of 

 the State, and this, with contiguous areas in the adjacent States, 

 makes up a region in which great commercial interests are located. 

 The part of this region in Kansas consists primarily of the following 



