PRINCIPAL APPLE VARIETIES. 



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the entire State, are San Bernardino (4 per cent), Nevada (3 per 

 cent), and Los Angeles and Humboldt (each 2 per cent). The pro- 

 duction in each of the counties not named in the present connection 

 is less than 2 per cent of a normal crop of the State. Recent plant- 

 ings in San Diego, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties doubt- 

 less will increase materially the apple production in these counties 

 within the next few years. 



Varieties. — A large proportion of the commercial apple crop of 

 California is made up of three varieties, Yellow Bellflower and Yel- 

 low Newtown, grown in the Pajaro Valley, and the Gravenstein, 



Fig. 12. — Outline map of the United States, showing the distribution by States of that 

 portion of the estimated average apple crop for the years 1909 to 1913, inclusive, 

 which is harvested in June. Each dot represents 30,000 bushels. The arrangement 

 of the dots within the State boundaries has no significance. 



which characterizes the output from the Sebastopol section of So- 

 noma County. 



Perhaps no more comprehensive index of the regional value of 

 varieties can be given than the summary of the responses made by 

 apple growers to a request issued by the Office of the California State 

 Commissioner of Horticulture for information in regard to what 

 were the leading sorts, which is substantially as follows : 



It is interesting to note in connection with first choice of varieties in answer 

 to question No. 12 [Name your leading varieties in the order of their iinpor- 



1 Weldon, George P. Apple growing in California ... p. 124 [Sacramento], 1914. 

 Issued by the California State Commission of Horticulture. 



