100 THE APPLE-TREE 



Idaho 



Payette district 



Boise Valley 



Twin Falls 



Lewiston section 

 California 



Watsonville district 



Sebastopol apple district 



Yucaipa section 

 Wisconsin 

 Minnesota 



The varieties of the South and the North, and largely 

 also of the West and the East, are prevailingly different. 

 Canada has a set of apples quite its own. These differ- 

 ences are marked when one visits exhibitions in the 

 various regions. Let the visitor who is a good judge of 

 apples ia Michigan and Ohio attempt to judge them in 

 an exhibitiofl in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, in 

 the Province of Quebec, in North Carolina, in Minnesota, 

 in Oregon. He will be impressed with the wonderful 

 diversity, as well as the undeveloped resources, of the 

 continent. 



Southward, apples do not keep well. There are no 

 true winter apples in the Southern States, outside moun- 

 tain regions. A winter apple of the North becomes a 

 fall apple in the South. In fact, there are marked differ- 

 ences in keeping quality within a single State. On grav- 

 ly lands or warm slopes in the southern part of New York, 

 the Northern Spy may become practically a late autumn 

 apple ; in the northern parts of the State it is a firm crisp 

 all-winter keeper. In the winter apple, the ripening pro- 

 cess proceeds in storage. When the season is so long 



