456 The Commercial Apple Industry 



In the more southern regions, Grimes, Delicious, Wine- 

 sap, Stayman and Yellow Transparent are valuable, while 

 Bonum, Virginia Beauty and Yellow Newtown are of par- 

 ticularly high quality when grown in the mountain dis- 

 tricts of the South. Many others are suitable, but the 

 above are excellent commercial sorts as well as for the 

 home orchard. Varieties not particularly suited for the 

 home orchard are Ben Davis, Gano, Borne Beauty, Bis- 

 mark, Wolf Eiver, Blue Pearmain, Pewaukee, Mammoth 

 Black Twig, Arkansas Black, Willow Twig, Missouri Pip- 

 pin, Smith Cider, Smokehouse ^and many others. Some 

 sweet apples find little place in commercial orchards, but 

 have superior flavor and are unexcelled for dessert and 

 boiling purposes. The Victoria Sweet, a very tender, 

 juicy and rare flavored apple in season from October to 

 January in the North is one of these, Jersey Sweet, a 

 month earlier, being another. Sweet Bough is the best 

 summer sweet apple, excelling all others in dessert 

 quality. 



Pound Sweet is a late fall and winter variety, which is 

 valuable, even commercially, and the same is true of Tol- 

 man Sweet. The last named is one of the best apples 

 grown for household use. 



Old varieties like Black Gilliflower, Koxbury and 

 Golden Russet, Westfield Seek-no-further, Yellow Bell- 

 flower and Jeffries are valuable in the home orchard. 

 Chenango is one of the very finest apples for the home 

 orchard, unexcelled in fine dessert quality. Its season is 

 July in southern Illinois, August in Ohio and September 

 in New York. 



It is always well when setting out a home orchard to get 

 in touch with the horticultural extension department of 



