38 VARIETIES TO PLANT 
Wagener, Grimes’s Golden, Fameuse, Winter Banana, and 
Wealthy. Good sellers, though apples of poorer quality, 
are Rome Beauty, King, Baldwin, and Red Cheek Pippin. 
Golden Russet and Ribston are favourites in England. 
So far as my own experience goes, I would recommend 
the rancher to make his selection from the following 
varieties. If he plants 10 acres, he should confine him- 
self to three, or at the very most four. The curtailed list 
is: Wagener, Jonathan, McIntosh Red, Northern Spy, 
Cox’s Orange, Gravenstein, King, Rome Beauty, Spitzen- 
berg, and Wealthy. Wagener and Jonathan both come 
into bearing comparatively early, Northern Spy compara- 
tively late. All of these varieties succeed well in the 
interior of the province ; King and Duchess of Oldenburg 
do best in the coast districts. For altitudes above 2,000 
feet those varieties which require a long season for ripen- 
ing their fruit, such as Northern Spy and Yellow Newtown, 
should not be planted. Spitzenberg and Winesap 
deteriorate in quality at high altitudes. In such situa- 
tions the varieties which succeed best are Duchess of 
Oldenburg, Wealthy, McIntosh Red, Gravenstein, Jona- 
than, Wagener, Rome Beauty, and Grimes’s Golden. 
But the choice of the man who plants only 10 acres 
will be, or ought to be, pretty well determined for him 
by what his nearest neighbours have already planted. 
For commercial export he will find it so advantageous to 
combine with his neighbours that he cannot well afford 
to grow different varieties from what they grow. 
Of course, every rancher plants a tree or two of dif- 
ferent varieties for domestic use, and here he can follow 
his own fancy absolutely unfettered. And this applies 
