32 BULLETIN 485, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the State. There are several important centers of production, as 

 follows : 



District 1. — Northern Idaho, which includes two sections, one centering about 

 Bonners Ferry in the extreme northern part of the State and the other about 

 Post Falls in the northern portion of Kootenai County. 



District ,?. — The Palouse region in Latah County, which extends also into 

 Whitman County in eastern Washington. 



District 3. — The Lewiston region, in Nez Perce County and also in the Snake 

 River valley. 



District .). — The Council Valley, extending between Council and Weiser. 



District 5. — The Payette Valley, centering about Payette and Emmett. 



District 6. — The Boise Valley, with centers of production about Caldwell, 

 Nampa, and Boise. 



District 7. — The Snake River canyon region, which includes that portion of 

 the Snake River valley which lies between the point where the river crosses 

 the State line into Oregon and the Twin Falls region, where, at various points 

 in the coves made by the river, orchards of some importance have been planted. 



District 8. — The Snake River valley, in the Twin Falls region in the south- 

 central part of the State. 



District 9. — The Blackfoot and Idaho Falls region in the Snake River valley, 

 in the southeastern part of the State. 



Varieties. — The varieties in the following list, with numbers cor- 

 responding* to those used to designate the several districts, include 

 the more important sorts : x 



District 1. — Banana (Winter Banana), Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Tompkins 

 King, and Wagener. 



District 2. — Jonathan, Grimes, Rome Beauty, and Wagener. 



District 3.- — Delicious, Esopus (Spitzcnbcrri), Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Wine- 

 sap, and Yellow Newtown. 



Districts .'f, 5, and 6. — Arkansas Black, Ben Davis, Delicious, Gano, Jonathan, 

 Rome Beauty, and Winesap. 



District 7. — Delicious, Gano, Jonathan, Rome Beauty, and Winesap. 



District 8. — Delicious, Grimes, Jonathan, Rome Beauty. Stayman Winesap, 

 Wagener, and Winesap. 



District 0. — Gravenstein, Mcintosh, and Wealthy. 



A considerable number of other varieties are mentioned in Bulletin 

 83 of the Idaho experiment station * as being of secondary importance 

 in each of the districts. For the northern districts the principal 

 secondary varieties are Baldwin. Gravenstein, Grimes, Northern Spy, 

 Oldenburg. "Wolf River. Yellow Bellflower. and Yellow Transparent. 

 For the other districts, the following comprise the principal sec- 

 ondary varieties where not named in the lists of first importance: 

 Banana, Early Harvest, Gravenstein, Mcintosh, Oldenburg, Rhode 

 Island Greening, Stayman Winesap, White Pearmain, and Wealthy. 



1 The varieties here listed for the various districts are substantially those recommended 

 by t ho Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station. (Vincent, C. C, and Downing, G. J., 

 E( rommended varieties of fruit for Idaho. Idaho Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 83, 14 p., map. 

 3015.) 



