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Varieties found in Bearing Orchards . - "Name the 

 leading varieties of apples in your bearing orchard in the 

 order of their commercial importance, giving the approximate 

 number of each." Two hundred and twelve bearing orchards 

 were reported, and in the aggregate they contain over a 

 quarter of a million trees. The fruit-growers named the 

 varieties in what they considered the order of their com- 

 mercial importance. Table 1 briefly summarizes their an- 

 swers. A word may be said in explanation of this table. 

 In the first column under the caption "Variety", the variet- 

 ies are listed in the order of their importance as shown by 

 the number of orchards in Which they are found. The second 

 column states that the rank is. The third column gives the 

 number of growers who have this variety in their orchards, 

 and the fourth column states the per cent of orchards in 

 which this variety is found. The total number of trees 

 reported of this variety stands in the fifth column. And 

 the per cent which this variety constitutes *># the total 

 number of trees reported in the old orchards stands in the 

 sixth column. Then the rank which the growers gave the 

 variety is shownj the number of growers who gave the var- 

 iety any stated rank stands beneath the ordinal which heads 

 the column representing that rank. For example, York ranks 



