SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 37 
Out of the long list of varieties grown, experience is 
gradually selecting the fittest. By the fittest I mean not 
only those that it is most satisfactory to the rancher to 
grow, but those that it is most satisfactory to the buyer 
to purchase. Time will, no doubt, still further reduce the 
list, which embraces about one dozen varieties, and is as 
follows : Wealthy, Wagener, Jonathan, Spitzenberg, McIn- 
tosh Red, Northern Spy, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Rome 
Beauty, Winesap, Gravenstein, King of Tompkins Co., 
and Yellow Newtown. To these may be added in the 
second degree: Grimes’s Golden, Baldwin, Fameuse or 
Snow, Red Cheek Pippin, Winter Banana, Golden Russet, 
Ontario, and Ribston Pippin. 
In these lists no early or summer varieties, such as 
Duchess of Oldenburg, are included, because they will 
neither keep nor travel well. The variety amongst the 
above which ripens earliest is Wealthy, in the beginning 
to the middle of September. This variety is in demand 
in Australia. Wealthy is followed by Gravenstein ; then 
comes McIntosh Red, then Jonathan, Cox’s Orange, 
King, and Spitzenberg ; and then the late winter varieties, 
ripening pretty much together. The English market 
will buy Cox’s Orange, Yellow Newtown, Spitzenberg, 
Jonathan, Northern Spy, Grimes’s Golden, Golden Russet, 
Baldwin, King, and Ribston. The Northern Spy is the 
best seller on the prairies. Jonathan, McIntosh Red, 
and Spitzenberg fetch high prices in the United States ; 
Wealthy, Gravenstein, Wagener, and McIntosh stand 
high in the local markets. In point of intrinsic quality 
the best amongst the above are Cox’s Orange, Spitzenberg, 
Gravenstein, Jonathan, Northern Spy, McIntosh Red, 
