452 The Commercial Apple Industry 



of all commercial varieties, is at the same time usually the 

 lowest in price on the commercial market, while Eed 

 June, probably producing about the lighest crop of any 

 commercial apple, usually tops the market in its season. 

 Quality is to be considered as well as the bearing tenden- 

 cies when selecting varieties. 



RELATIVE HARDINESS OF COMMERCIAL VARIETIES 



Hardiness and health of tree plays an important part in 

 selecting varieties and should be considered especially in 

 severe climates. The following are well known as hardy 

 sorts: 



Northern Spy Wealthy 



Ben Davis Baldwin 



Fameuse Yellow Bellflower 



Yellow Newtown Gravenstein 



Tolman Sweet Williams Early Bed 



Mcintosh Alexander 



Winter Banana Delicious 



The following varieties lack hardiness: 



Tompkins King Grimes 



Twenty Ounce Sutton 



Esopus Canada Bed 

 Hubbardston 



One might mention a great many other varieties which 

 would fall midway between these two groups, or might add 

 several to each group, but the more important in each 

 extreme are named above. Of the hardy varieties, Mcin- 

 tosh deserves particular mention. It withstood the severe 

 winter in 1917 in the Champlain district of New York and 



