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Varieties. — Ben Davis, Grimes, Jonathan, Oldenburg, Stayman 

 Winesap, Williams, Winesap, Yellow Transparent, and York Im- 

 perial. In some of the Eastern Shore counties the Arkansas (or 

 Paragon) occurs frequentW, while in Garrett County, in the extreme 

 western part of the State, where the elevations are high, the Bald- 

 win is a relatively important variety. 



VIKGINIA. 



Distribution. — The commercial apple-orchard interests in Virginia 

 are located mostly in the Piedmont, Blue Ridge, and Shenandoah 

 Valley regions. In a general way, the statement is accurate that 

 these three regions include the two tiers of counties which extend 

 in a northeast-southwest direction throughout the State and which 

 have a common boundary on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains. 

 In some sections where the counties are small, this area is three 

 counties in width. This territory as a commercial apple-producing 

 area may be said to extend as far west as Pulaski and Carroll Coun- 

 ties, but interests of considerable magnitude are being developed in 

 other counties in the southwestern part of the State, including Gray- 

 son, Wythe, Smythe, Russell, and possibly others. Several counties 

 in the northern part of Virginia also have orchards of considerable 

 importance individually, but they do not make up community inter- 

 ests of large extent. 



Varieties. — While many varieties occur, especially in the older 

 orchards, those which largely make up the commercial industry are 

 Arkansas (Mammoth Black Tioig), Ben Davis, Grimes, Rome 

 Beauty, Stayman Winesap, Winesap, Yellow Newtown (Albemarle 

 Pippin) — grown to some extent in the coves, on the spurs, and on 

 the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge — and York Imperial. 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



Distribution.— There are three regions in West Virginia of par- 

 ticular prominence for commercial apple production. The seven 

 counties that comprise the eastern " panhandle," so-called, form one 

 of these regions, the four eastern counties constituting the more im- 

 portant part. The four counties that constitute the northern pan- 

 handle make another region of considerable prominence, Hancock 

 County being the most widely known section of this region. A third 

 region consists of the counties that border on the Ohio River, ex- 

 tending from and including Wayne County on the south to Pleasant 

 County on the north. In this region the orchards are located mostly 

 within a few miles of the river. 



