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Summer Pearmain. 



The old Summer Pearmain variety is found in home orchards in most regions 

 of Kentucky and West Virginia. The tree is long lived and bears regularly. 

 It ripens about the first of August in the Gulf Coastal Plains region in Ken- 

 tucky and the latter part of August in the Allegheny Plateau region in West 

 Virginia. In dessert quality it is one of the best. It is grown for its high 

 dessert quality, but is tender for market purposes. 

 Summer Rambo. 



The Summer Rambo is grown in a few commercial orchards and in many 

 home orchards of this area. The tree grows to very large size, is vigorous, 

 healthy, spreading, and open. The fruit is large, attractively colored, and of 

 very good dessert quality. For its season it is considered a profitable sum- 

 mer variety. 

 Sutton. 



The Sutton variety, which is considered desirable in some places in the 

 northern fruit districts, is found in a few orchards of northern West Virginia. 

 It probably does not yield well enough to be of great value in commercial or- 

 chards. The tree in that section is very upright and open, having few small 

 branches. The fruit is highly colored, medium to large in size, good in dessert 

 quality, and keeps till early winter in cold storage. 

 Thompson June. 



The variety known as the Thompson June originated on the place of Terry 

 Thompson, near Florence, 9 miles from Paducah, Ky. It is considered an 

 excellent and an early bearer, 5-year-old trees bearing good crops at Kevil, Ky. 

 The trees are upright in growth, subject to blight. The fruit is of good size, 

 oblong truncate, a very attractive red in color, with a heavy scarfskin and 

 large dots. It is not as good in dessert quality as Red June, but is considered 

 a desirable cooking variety. It ripens during the last of June, as the last of 

 the Early Harvest are picked, and continues in season through July, making it 

 more desirable for the home orchard than in commercial plantations. 

 Tolman. Synonym : Tolman Siceet. 



The Tolman, a winter sweet apple of northern apple districts, has proved 

 very uncertain in this area and is rarely profitable. In many places the tree 

 has not been productive and the fruit small and worthless. In other places 

 the tree has not been healthy. Altogether it has been too unsatisfactory to be 

 grown in the future. 

 Tompkins King. Synonyms : King, King of Tompkins County. 



The Tompkins King variety, which is considered very desirable in some 

 northern regions, is without much value in any of the orchards where it is 

 grown in this area, as nearly all the fruit is water cored, and it does not have 

 the high dessert quality that it possesses when grown farther north. The fruit 

 is usually higher colored than that from northern regions, but it drops badly. 

 Altogether its faults are too serious to warrant growing it in any of the regions 

 of this area. 

 Traders. Synonym: Traders Fancy. 



The Traders apple is found in a few orchards in West Virginia and occasion- 

 ally in the other States. In Knox County in eastern Tennessee the fruit water 

 cores so badly that it is of little value. In West Virginia it is an attractive 

 dark red in color covered with a heavy bloom, medium in size, very firm, sweet, 

 and of good dessert quality. It keeps in cold storage until late winter and is 

 considered desirable for the local market in the Allegheny Plateau region of 

 northern West Virginia. 



Twenty Ounce. 



The Twenty Ounce variety ripens during the last half of September in 

 northern West Virginia, where it is considered a good apple and is fairly 

 profitable. 



The tree is usually small, has characteristic drooping branches, and is re- 

 ported to be very susceptible to blight. The fruit is highly colored, and 

 though it usually has a rough surface in this region, it is smooth for the 

 variety. It is being superseded by other varieties of better dessert quality. 



Virginia Beauty. 



In the northeastern part of the East Tennessee Valley region the Virginia 

 Beauty (63, 1905, p. 495) variety ranks with Delicious in productiveness, 

 beauty, dessert and keeping qualities, and is one of the most desirable varie- 

 ties; in that section both are late fall apples. At altitudes of 3,000 feet in 



