98 THE APPLE-TREE 



than in the development of fruiting wood. The con- 

 sequence is that our trees become very large, specially in 

 New York and New England where they are long-lived. 

 In the western country, as we have learned, the apple- 

 tree tends to be shorter-lived and does not usually attain 

 such great size. In the New York apple country, or- 

 chards may be in good bearing at forty to sixty years 

 from planting, and individual trees may be productive 

 much longer than this. The trees come into good bear- 

 ing in ten to fifteen years. In the irrigated regions of 

 the West, the trees may be expected to bear a good crop 

 two to five years earlier; to what age they may attain, 

 in large plantations, it is yet too early to state. 



The commercial apple regions of North America aire 

 in Canada and the northern United States, comprising 

 about two or three tiers of States, with important exten- 

 sions southward into the mountains and in special parts. 

 The Southern States are not known as apple-growing 

 country, except in special restricted elevated areas, al- 

 though there are considerable plantations near the Gulf 

 of Mexico. 



The geography of apple-growing on the North Amer- 

 ican continent cannot be better displayed than by copy- 

 ing the table of contents of the larger part of Chapters 

 III and II in Folger and Thomson's excellent recent book, 

 "The Commercial Apple Industry of North America:" 



Commercial Apple Production in Canada 



Nova Scotia 



Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick 



Quebec 



Ontario 



British iColumbia. 



