78 The Commercial Apple Industry 



Sebastopol apple district. 



The Sevastopol apple district is considerably less 

 important than the Pajaro Valley or Watsonville section 

 and yet it is the second region in California. The most 

 extensive plantings are in the vicinity of Sebastopol 

 which is situated in Sonoma County about sixty miles 

 north of San Francisco. This is the only distinctive early' 

 apple section in the West and has come to prominence 

 largely through its production of Gravensteins. ^ 



In normal years the shipments of fresh apples from 

 this region seldom have exceeded 600 cars and most of 

 these have been Gravensteins. The apple plantings are 

 much more recent than those near Watsonville and an 

 increased production may be expected.' Sebastopol 

 deserves mention as a dried apple center. In normal 

 years more of its crop is dried than is shipped fresh. This 

 section has produced as high as 2,000 tons of dried apples 

 in a season. Among the winter varieties, Esopus (Spitz- 

 enburg), Baldwin, Yellow Newtown, Yellow Bellflower, 

 and Borne Beauty are more or less prominent. A large 

 part of the production of the latter varieties is dried. 



There is little similarity between the type and charac- 

 ter of the Sebastopol orchards and those of the more 

 important Watsonville section. In the former, the or- 

 chards conform more to the mountain type and are of al- 

 most entirely different varieties than at Watsonville. 

 Irrigation is not practiced. 



Yucaipa section. 



A third apple region has more recently developed in 

 California in San Bernardino and Biverside counties in 



