10 FEUITS EECOMMENDED FOR CULTIVATION. 



the names of varieties when not required to insure their identity. 

 Synonyms are itahcized and included within parentheses.'^ Foreign 

 names of varieties are onl}^ anghcized in the interest of brevity or for 

 convenience of pronunciation. 



The entire territory represented is divided into eighteen pomo- 

 logical districts, with httle regard to State or provincial boundaries, but 

 with primary reference to the influence of latitude, elevation, pre- 

 vailing winds, and oceanic and lacustrine exposures upon their 

 adaptation to pomological pursuits (see map, PL I). 



POMOLOGICAL DISTRICTS AS DEFINED BY THE AMERICAN 

 POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



District No. 1. — Maine above 500 feet elevation; Xew Hampshire, 

 Vermont, and New York north of latitude 44°; Ontario north of Lake 

 Simcoe and east of longitude 80° ; Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince 

 Edward Island. The dominant natural feature of this district is the 

 St. Lawrence Valley. Many of the hardier fruits flourish within its 

 borders. 



District No. 2. — Nova Scotia; Maine below 500 feet elevation; New 

 Hampshire and Vermont south of latitude 44°; Massachusetts; Rhode 

 Island; Connecticut; New York south of latitude 44°, except Long 

 Island; northern New Jersey above 500 feet elevation; Pennsylvania 

 east of the Susquehanna River and above 500 feet elevation, north 

 of latitude 41° west to the Allegheny River, and all of that portion 

 of the State lying north of the Ohio River; Ohio and Indiana north of 

 latitude 40°; the lower peninsula of Michigan; and Ontario south of 

 Lake Simcoe. The xlnnapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, the North 

 Atlantic coast, the lake region of western New York, Ohio, Ontario, 

 and ^lichigan, and the Hudson River Valley are the leading features 

 of District No. 2. This may be considered the northern grape, 

 peach, and winter-apple district. 



District No. 3. — Long Island; New Jersey, except a small portion 

 north; eastern Pennsylvania below 500 feet elevation; Delaware; and 

 Maryland and Virginia below 500 feet elevation. This is the Delaware 

 and Chesapeake Bay district. Though a small district, its productive 

 capacity of the fruits that succeed within its borders is great. 



District No. 4- — Penns^dvania above 500 feet elevation and south of 

 latitude 41°; Mar^dand, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama above 500 feet elevation; West Vir- 

 ginia; Tennessee and Kentucky; Ohio and Indiana south of latitude 

 40°; southern Illinois below the general elevation of 500 feet, from the 

 Wabash to the Mississippi; Missouri south of a line from near St. I^ouis 

 and along the elevation of 1,000 feet to the southeast corner of Kansas; 



a Synonyms are used for the better identification of varieties. 

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