184 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
Best Sellers 
Best sellers as indicated by the largest number of nurserymen reporting a given 
variety. 
JOMATMAN ooo... eeeeeeeeeeeee 14 
Grimes 000... 11 
Wine@Sap 2... ce ceeee ee eeeeee 10 
Rome Beauty ..........20. § 
Baldwin ........ cececeeetneeeees . 7 
McIntosh o.....ceeee eee . 7 
St@yMAN occ eee ene 7 
Wealthy ......eeeceeeeeees 6 
Yellow Transparent........ 
eee eee ee ee eee ee ee 
Yellow Imperial 
Yellow Newtown 
Northern Spy 
TCE ee 
Delicious 2 3 
Delicious 2 9 
M. B. Twig. 9 
Arkansas Black 2 
Black Ben Davis.......... y) 
Bonum 2.000. 1 
Maiden Blush 0.0.00. 1 
N. W. Greening... 1 
Table of Varieties Having the Highest Number of Recommendations 
Apples having the highest number of recommendations for districts and states. 
This does not mean that these apples are necessarily best for every district; it simply 
means that they do well in the greatest number of places. The numeral following 
the name gives the number of recommendations according to the American Pomo- 
logical Society. 
Red Astrachan ................ 65 
Barly Harvest .........00... 56 
Oldenberg wu... BO 
Maiden’s - Blush ......... ... 50 
WineSap oo... eeeee eee 49 
Ben Davis .....0..c. 47 
Gravenstein 0.00.0... 43 
Fameuse ..... ee edee es veveeeeeee 36 
Fall Pippin 2.0... BB 
Sweet Bough 0.000000... 35 
Baldwin 00... sieeeee 34 
Jonathan ....... centanateaeceeneees 30 
Northern Spy .........-. 33° 
POrter ooeeeeeeececceeseceseseeee BQ 
Ralls Janet.......... vcteenen BR 
R. I. Greening oo... 32 
Tolman Sweet...................32 
Yellow Bellflower .......... 81 
Sap of Wine .2..00cu. 81 
None Such ooo 30 
William’s Favorite ........ 29 
Summer Pearmain vevesee 29 
Golden Sweet 
Smith’s Cider 
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eee ee eee eee eee ee reer) 
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L. Strawberry | 
Peak’s Pleasant ......:....... 25 
Summer Rose 
Ce ee. ee ee re ey 
ee er 2 rs 
Twenty Ounce 
Summer Queen 
Early Margaret 
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Limbertwig 200000. 21 
Tompkins King ............ 21 
Hoas (Horse) 200.0000... 20 
Nickajack 200000000... 20 
Wagener oo 20 
Willow Twig ..000000..... 20 
Hewes Crab ...00000.. 19 
Jersey Sweet ........0000000.. 19 
Roman Stem ..........0000.. 18 
Ballwater 2.0.0.0... 18 
Rome Beauty ...0.0.0000.. 18 
High Top Sweet.............. 18 
Wealthy 2.0.0.0 18 
Lowell ooec...ccccceceeeecceeeeees 18 
Newtown Pippin ............ 18 
Keswick Codlin ............ 17 
Spitzenburg oe. 17 
Canada Red o........cceee cen 15 
York Imperial .......000... 13 
White Winter Pearmain 12 
Apples Recommended for Commercial Orchards in ‘the United States and Canada 
J. L. Dumas 
The tendency for the orchardists of the country to select fewer varieties for 
commercial plantings is well illustrated by the attempt on the part of the revision 
committee of the American Pomological Society to cut down the number of recom- 
mendations to fifty. The attempt did not succeed, but the suggestions to the com- 
mittee, made. by Mr. J. l. Dumas, of Pullman, Washington, chairman of the com- 
mittee, are given. 
Only 40 varieties are named, ten spaces being left blank to be supplied later. 
