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of growers were of the opinion that there were no limiting 

 factors in their respective localities; it is entirely poss- 

 ible that these growers based their choice of varieties in 

 the first instance on the experience of the community in 

 which they began the business, and therefore they had not 

 observed any unfavorable influence of the environment, for 

 they made the right choice to begin with. It sometimes hap- 

 pens that a variety is reported very successful by one man, 

 while his neighbor on an adjoining farm may find the same 

 variety worthless. This shows that the influence of the 

 environment is very clearly marked, furthermore, it em- 

 phasises the importance of having all available information 

 regarding the adaptation of a given variety before planting 

 that variety on a large scale. The difference between suc- 

 cess and failure may depend upon the grower's knowledge of 

 the requirements of the variety which he plants. 



She question of acclimatization may well be consid- 

 ered here. A number of growers stated that certain varieties 

 which are prominent in the commercial orchards of the North 

 become fall apples when brought South. This point is illus- 

 trated by Baldwin, Northern Spy, Mother and Possibly Jonathan, 

 This is the ecological response of the variety to its en- 

 vironment. 



The growers have a tendency to ascribe the limitat- 



