THE VARIETIES OF APPLE 69 



Catalogue of Fruits of the American Pomological Society, 

 1901, the last year in which the catalogue was published 

 with quality rated on a scale of 10. On such a scale, 

 Ben Davis ranks 4-5 ; Baldwin, 5-6 ; Wealthy and York 

 Imperial, 6-7; Rhode Island Greening, 7-8; Northern 

 Spy, 8-9; Yellow Newtown (Albermarle Pippin) 9-10. 

 There is no apple in the entire catalogue of 324 kinds 

 (not including crab-apples) rated wholly lower than 4 

 in quality except one alone and this is grown for cider 

 only, although several varieties of minor importance bear 

 the marks 3-4. Only two varieties are rated exclusively 

 10, the Garden Royal, a Massachusetts summer-fall apple, 

 little known to planters, and the familiar Esopus Spitzen- 

 berg. Of course judgments differ widely in these mat- 

 ters, as there are no inflexible criteria for the scoring of 

 quality; yet this extensive list is probably our soundest 

 approach to the subject. 



The varieties in the catalogue of the American Po- 

 mological Society are starred if "known to succeed in 

 a given district" and double-starred "if highly success- 

 ful." North America is thrown into nineteen districts 

 for the purposes of this catalogue (which comprises 

 other fruits besides apples). For our purposes we may 

 combine them into six more or less indefinite great re- 

 gions: n. e., the northeastern part of the country, Dela- 

 ware and Pennsylvania to eastern Canada ; s. e., the parts 

 south of this area and mostly east of the Mississippi; 

 n. c, north central, from Kansas and Missouri north; 

 s. w., Texas to Arizona; mt., the mountain states of the 

 Rockies west to the Sierras, including of course much 

 high plains country ; pac, the Pacific slope, Washington 

 to southern California. 



