198 California Fruit Districts. 
Cook’s Seeating (Name approved by Calitornia State Horticultural 
Society, November, 1887). Syn. Soxoma Seedling.—Brought to notice by 
O. B. Shaw, of Sonoma, who sent specimens to the Aural’ Press in January, 
1872. Described in that paper, January 27, as a seedling raised by David 
Cook from the seed of the Juneating. Above medium size, pale yellow 
striped with red, sharp acid flavor. Not decidedly rich, but flavor full and 
acceptable. Excellent keeping qualities. Especially popular in Sonoma 
and Napa Counties; reported unfavorably from Placer County. 
Tabular Showing of Adaptations—In preparation for this 
edition the writer undertook special inquiry to secure informa- 
tion from growers as to what their choice would be if they were 
to plant apples in 1899. Several hundred growers were con- 
sulted. and the results of this inquiry are herewith substituted 
for the tabulation used in earlier editions of this work. Old 
data were abandoned entirely. The r:su't is a large shrinkage 
in the list of varieties which are now thought to be worth plant- 
ing in the different parts of the State:— 
An attempt has been made to district the State in accord- 
ance with the scheme of climatic divisions described in Chapter 
[. This groups regions of nearest resemblance, and is more 
rational than any prescription according to county lines cari be, 
for though some counties lie wholly in one climatic division, many 
more counties extend through two, and some even through three, 
such divisions. It is, therefore, a more promising proposition to 
encourage planters in any locality to study their climatic adapta- 
tions, not with regard to county lines but rather as they are re- 
lated to the conditions of elevation, exposure to ocean influ- 
ences and other factors which characterize natural belts, or areas, 
of similar horticultural fitness. The only instances in which 
these agencies are grouped geographically, is in constituting 
southern California a division by itself. This is a recognition of 
the fact that though in southern California coast and interior 
differences clearly exist, they are not so marked as they are in 
the upper portions of the State, and there is consequently less 
marked contrast in suitability to various fruits. This concession 
to the south as sui gencris also escapes, or answers instead of a 
third division of coast valleys, for the southern counties as a 
whole have a mollified or subdued coast climate, their region of 
strictly interior valley and foot-hill climate being restricted by 
the fact that practically almost ail their cultivated area lies sout 1 
and west of their high mountains. It is an interesting fact that 
the California coast climates north and south show much greater 
contrasting conditions than do the interior valley regions, north 
and south, and southern California being so largely in the coast 
class could on this basis of wide coast variations claim a distinct- 
ive designation, though it could hardly be granted on the com- 
parison of interior valley characters throughout the State. 
