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Apple variety, Virgi Beauty, description and behavior 45 



Pilot, behavior 40 



Pippin, behavior and range 47-48 



Wealthy, behavior 45 



White Bell flower, behavior 40 



Willow, behavior 45 



Twig, behavior 45 



Winesap, description, behavior, and phenological records... 45-46,80 



Winter Paradise, behavior and phenological records 46-47, 81 



Penick, behavior 40 



Yates, description and behavior 47 



Winter, description and behavior 47 



Yellow Bellflower, behavior 47 



Earvesi, behavior ■. 34 



Juneating, behavior 34 



Newtown, behavior, range, and phenological records. 47-48, 81 



Transparent, behavior and phenological records 49, 82 



York Imperial, behavior and phenological records 49, 83 



Apples, nomenclature, discussion 29 



varieties, behavior 28-49 



grouping according to behavior at different altitudes in dif- 

 ferent latitudes 64-66 



phenological records, table 71-83 



susceptibility to bitter-rot 37, 41, 43, 46-47 



Bedford County, Ya., peach orchards 51 



soils, description 21 



Bitter-rot, apple, susceptibility of varieties 37,41,43,46-47 



Blight, pear, susceptibility of Bartlett and Le Conte 50-51 



Blue Ridge and Piedmont regions, climate 22-27 



phenological records 68-95 



physical and climatic conditions 14-27 



description 15-18 



pomological aspect 28 



soils 18-22 



Mountains, description 17 



region, fruit varieties, grouping by altitude and latitude 64-67 



topography 16 



Bureau of Plant Industry, fruit district investigations 7-13 



Caldwell County, N. C, origin of Dula apple 33 



Cherry growing, extent 61-62 



variety. Carnation 62 



Centennial 62 



Elton 62 



Ida 62 



May Duke 62 



Morello (English) 62 



Napoleon 62 



Ohio Beauty 62 



Oxheart 62 



Richmond 62 



Rockport 62 



Spanish 62 



Tartarian 62 



Wood 62 



Climate, data from orchards, difficulty of obtaining 23 



definition 22 



effect on plant life 22-23, 26-27 



importance as a factor in distribution of plant life 22 



Piedmont and Blue Ridge regions, description and records 22-27 



'records, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia 24-25 



Coastal Plain, Virginia and the South Atlantic States, topography 15 



Cove orchards, location 18 



Cumberland Plateau, location 15,18 



Disease, fruit. See Bitter-rot and Blight. 



Frostless zone. Piedmont region, description and location 26-27 



Frosts, relation to successful fruit growing 26-27 



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