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



West of the Cascade Range. — (5) The Willamette Valley; (6) the Umpqua 

 Valley, in the centra] part of Douglas County; (7) the Rogue River valley, in 

 the eastern part of Josephine County and the central part of Jackson County. 



Varieties. — There is more or less uniformity in the important va- 

 rieties in the different valleys. However, the leading ones in some 

 sections are unimportant in others. The following lists are based 

 largely on recommendations of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment 

 Station : 1 



District 1. — Ben Davis, Gano, Rome Beauty, Tompkins King, Wagener, and 

 Tork Imperial ; some Banana and Delicious in the younger orchards. 



District 2. — Jonathan, Rome Beauty, and Winesap ; in older orchards, Ben 

 Davis also, but the trees are being top-worked more or less to other varieties. 



District 3. — Esopus (Spiteenberg) and Yellow Newtown are most important; 

 Arkansas Black, Jonathan, Monmouth (Red Cheek), and others occur to some 

 extent. 



District 4- — The few apples grown in this section (The Dalles) consist largely 

 of the Baldwin, Ben Davis, Esopus (Spitsenberg) , Winesap, and Yellow New- 

 town. 



District 5. — On account of its size and the varied conditions in this valley 

 (Willamette) a rather wide range of varieties is grown, the pricipal ones 

 being Baldwin, Esopus (Spitzenbcrg), Gano, Gravenstein, Grimes, Jonathan, 

 Northern Spy, Ortley, Rhode Island Greening, Rome Beauty, Tompkins King 

 (sometimes watercores badly), and Wagener. 



Districts 6 and 7. — Esopus and Yellow Newtown are the most important; 

 Jonathan (in district 6) and Jonathan and Winesap (in district 7) also occur 

 to some extent. 



The percentage of each of the different varieties in the normal 

 commercial crop for the entire State is indicated in connection with 

 Table III. 



CALIFORNIA. 



Distribution. — Apple growing in California is widely distributed. 

 From 100 to 500 acres or more of bearing trees occur in nearly every 

 county in the State, but a very large proportion of the commercial 

 crop is produced in two or three sections. The Pajaro Valley, which 

 includes the southern part of Santa Cruz County and the northern 

 part of Monterey County, perhaps more commonly called the Wat- 

 sonville district, is the most important apple-growing section in 

 California, the two counties named producing nearly 65 per cent of 

 the entire crop of the State. The Sebastopol section of Sonoma 

 County is the second largest district, that county producing about 

 16 per cent of the normal crop of the State. The other counties, 

 each of which produces 2 per cent 2 ' or more of the normal crop of 



1 Lewis, C. I. Orchard management. Oreg. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. Ill, 96 p., 41 fig. 



1911. 



- Estimates of the Office of the California State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



