32 BT7LLETIX 485, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the State. There are several important centers of production, as 

 follows : 



District 1. — Northern Idaho, which includes two sections, one centering about 

 Bonners Ferry in the extreme northern part of the State and the other about 

 Post Falls in the northern portion of Kootenai County. 



District 2. — The Palouse region in Latah County, which extends also into 

 Whitman County in eastern Washington. 



District 3. — The Lewiston region, in Xez Perce County and also in the Snake 

 Paver valley. 



District 4- — The Council Valley, extending between Council and Weiser. 



District 5. — The Payette Valley, centering about Payette and Emmett. 



District 6. — The Boise Valley, with centers of production about Caldwell, 

 Xampa, and Boise. 



District 7. — The Snake Biver canyon region, which includes that portion of 

 the Snake River valley which lies between the point where the river crosses 

 the State line into Oregon and the Twin Falls region, where, at various points 

 in the coves made by the river, orchards of some importance have been planted. 



District S. — The Snake Biver valley, in the Twin Falls region in the south- 

 central part of the State. 



District 9. — The Blackfoot and Idaho Falls region in the Snake Biver valley, 

 in the southeastern part of the State. 



Varieties. — The varieties in the following list, with numbers cor- 

 responding to those used to designate the several districts, include 

 the more important sorts : x 



District 1. — Banana (TVinter Banana)T Jonathan. Borne Beauty. Tompkins 

 King, and Wagener. 



District 2. — Jonathan, Grimes, Borne Beauty, and Wagener. 



District 3. — Delicious, Esopus (Spitzenberg), Jonathan. Borne Beauty. Wine- 

 sap, and Yellow Newtown. 



Districts } ; 5. and 6. — Arkansas Black. Ben Davis. Delicious. Gano. Jonathan, 

 Borne Beauty, and Winesap. 



District 7. — Delicious, Gano. Jonathan. Borne Beauty, and Winesap. 



District 8. — Delicious, Grimes, Jonathan, Borne Beauty. Stayman Winesap, 

 Wagener, and Winesap. 



District 9. — Gravenstein, Mcintosh, and Wealthy. 



A considerable number of other varieties are mentioned in Bulletin 

 S3 of the Idaho experiment station x as being of secondary importance 

 in each of the districts. For the northern districts the principal 

 secondary varieties are Baldwin. Gravenstein. Grimes. Northern Spy, 

 Oldenburg. TVolf Biver. Yellow Bellflower. and Yellow Transparent. 

 For the other districts, the following comprise the principal sec- 

 ondary varieties where not named in the lists of first importance: 

 Banana, Early Harvest. Gravenstein, Mcintosh. Oldenburg. Bhode 

 Island Greening, Stayman TTinesap, White Pearmain, and TVealthy. 



1 The varieties here listed for the various districts are substantially those recommended 

 by the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station. (Vincent, C. C, and Downing. G. J., 

 Recommended varieties of fruit for Idaho. Idaho Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. S3, 14 p., map. 

 1915.) 



