38 ORCHAKD FRUITS IN VIRGINIA AND OTHER STATES. 



Its behavior may be outlined, as follows: Grown on Cecil sandy loam at 800 feet in 

 the Virginia section, it is inclined to rot and drop even when given fairly good care. 

 Cecil loam at corresponding elevations gives somewhat better results. With good 

 care this apple reaches a rather high degree of perfection in the upper Piedmont and 

 Blue Ridge regions on Cecil clay. Porters sandy loam, and Porters black loam at eleva- 

 tions of 1,000 to 1,300 feet; likewise, it generally does well on the clay loam soils of the 

 Piedmont region in North and South Carolina and northeast Georgia. At the higher 

 points in North Carolina conflicting results occur frequently. For instance, on a 

 soil similar to Cecil sandy loam at 2,000 feet altitude, one grower claims that this 

 variety possesses more good qualities and is more satisfactory than any other variety. 

 Another one not far distant from the first considers it unsatisfactory in every way. 

 It is quite possible in this particular instance that the question of soil moisture is the 

 determining factor, the moister soil giving the better results. Again, on clay loam 

 soils at 3,000 to 3,500 feet elevation the behavior is satisfactory, the fruit being much 

 more juicy and larger and finer in every particular than it is under many other con- 

 ditions. On the other hand, there are instances under nearly all of these conditions 

 in which the rotting and dropping of the fruit are serious faults. Such results render 

 impossible any general summary regarding its limits of adaptability. 

 McAfee. 



So far as observed, this variety has not been planted intentionally in any portion 

 of these regions, but in several instances it has been obtained through error and is 

 being grown under some other name, usually the one for which it was bought. In the 

 few places where this variety has been observed, however, it appears to grow and 

 fruit well. It is an apple of fair size, prolific, and as a rule of excellent keeping 

 qualities, often producing fruit when most other varieties fail. Its rather dull color 

 makes it less desirable as a market sort than many others, and for this reason especially 

 it is doubtful if it is likely to become of any particular importance in this region. 



It does well, as noted, in the case of young trees on Cecil clay at 800 feet elevation. 

 On Cecil sandy loam at 1,000 feet, where most varieties are at best of uncertain value, 

 this is a fairly good winter sort, and at 1,500 feet on a loose, blackish sandy loam, 

 which is a deposit washed from a Porters clay hillside and doubtless underlaid by this 

 type, it is giving good results so far as its fruiting capacity is concerned. It bears 

 more or less every year, and the specimens are very fine of the variety. Also at about 

 the same elevation in North Carolina on a sandy loam soil with porous subsoil it is 

 giving favorable results. Similar results are obtained in corresponding locations 

 in northeastern Georgia. 

 Maiden Blush. 



This is not a prominent variety in these regions and has been mentioned only occas- 

 ionally, but most of the reports concerning it are favorable. On Cecil sandy loam at 

 900 to 1,000 feet elevation it is inclined to rot severely, but on the more clayey soils 

 of the Piedmont region it does well. Its season of ripening varies considerably, 

 Tanging from summer to early fall. In the middle Piedmont orchards it would prob- 

 ably ripen in August or early in September; at one point in North Carolina having an 

 altitude of 3,500 to 4,000 feet, with rather loose friable loam, some very fine specimens 

 have been seen the middle of October. In some sections of the country where early 

 apples are grown extensively this is an important commercial sort. 

 MHam. 



Comparatively few growers have this variety in their orchards. Its small size 

 restricts its usefulness to the home orchard, but its high dessert quality makes it of 

 value in this connection. It may be used in the fall, yet under favorable conditions 

 it can be kept until well into the winter. Cecil sandy loam at 1,000 feet altitude and 

 Porters clay at 1,500 feet appear to be favorable soil conditions for its growth in the 

 Virginia portions of these regions. 

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