226 The Principles of Fruit-growing. 
or take most interest in. ‘These are the ones with 
which you will most likely succeed. 
2. Obtain a clear and specific ideal of the pur- 
pose for which the fruit is to be grown,— whether 
for dessert, for canning, for a local market, for ex- 
port, for evaporating, and the like. Then choose the 
varieties which are best suited to meet these ideals. 
3. Do not covet a variety simply because it is 
eminently successful in another region. Varieties 
have distinct adaptations to geographical areas. If 
a given variety is a universal success in the plains 
regions, the probabilities are that it will not thrive 
equally well in New England. The farmers of the 
east have learned that they cannot compete with 
those of the west in the growing of wheat, but 
they have not yet learned that one region may not 
be able to compete with another in some particular 
variety of fruit, even though the variety thrive well 
in both. It is a question if the northeastern states 
can compete with the mid-western states in the 
growing of the Ben Davis apple. The south and 
mid-south are being planted extensively to the 
Kieffer pear, largely because it thrives better over a 
large area than most other varieties. It is doubt- 
ful, then, if it is wise to plant it extensively in 
the north, where other pears will thrive which do 
not sueceed in the Kieffer region. Diversification 
must come to be more and more important in 
fruit-growing; and any region should grow that 
type of fruit most freely which other regions can- 
not grow so well. 
