PRINCIPAL APPLE VARIETIES. 27 



Varieties. — The relatively long-keeping varieties that are consid- 

 ered of particular value in the above-named counties are Arkansas 

 (Mammoth Black Twig J, Delicious, Scott Cluster, and Yates. Other 

 varieties more or less popular are Ben Davis, Gano, Shockley, and 

 Winesap. At some of the higher elevations in Greenville, Pickens, 

 and Oconee Counties the Kinnard is valuable. Early Harvest, Horse, 

 and Eed June are the principal summer varieties. The early varie- 

 ties are grown somewhat widely in the central as well as in the west- 

 ern sections of the State. 



Distribution. — Apple growing in Georgia on a commercial basis 

 is confined principally to Eabun and Habersham Counties in the 

 northeastern part of the State. A few orchards have been devel- 

 oped in White, Union, Lumpkin, and other counties in northern and 

 northwestern Georgia, where the elevations in the southern exten- 

 sion of the Blue Ridge Mountains are comparatively high. No apples 

 of importance are grown south of Atlanta. 



Varieties. — Arkansas (Mammoth Black Twig), Arkansas Black, 

 Ben Davis, Kinnard (at the higher elevations), Shockley, Stayman 

 Winesap, Terry, Winesap, Yates, and Yellow Transparent. The 

 Limbertwig (a long-keeping sort) and Early Harvest, Horse, and 

 Reel June (summer varieties), taken together, constitute relatively 

 a large percentage of the entire crop of the State, but they do not 

 occur, as a rule, in the commercial orchards. This suggests the fact 

 that, though relatively few apples are grown in Georgia, a large 

 proportion of the total is produced in small home orchards, of which 

 a considerable part consists of the three summer varieties named 

 above. 



Practically no apples are grown in Florida, on account of the 

 mildness of the climate throughout the year. 



EAST SOUTH-CENTRAL STATES. 



KENTUCKY. 



Distribution. — The commercial orchards in Kentucky are located 

 mostly at points along the Ohio Eiver, quite largely in Campbell, 

 Kenton, Jefferson, Hardin, Henderson, and McCracken Counties. 

 Individual orchards and relatively small community interests occur 

 in other sections, Warren, Madison, and Bath Counties being repre- 

 sentative locations. Formerly there were very extensive orchards 

 of the Ben Davis apple in Meade and Breckinridge Counties, which 

 border on the Ohio River in the north-central part of the State, 



