APPLES 



Apple-growing will make more money than any 

 other business in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge 

 country. It is the most permanent, the safest, the 

 most satisfactory occupation and industry that can 

 be carried on. 



The extension of new railroads, improving of high- 

 ways, and better methods of packing and shipping, 

 are continually opening up new markets. To meet 

 this new demand, more land owners in the Virginias, 

 the Carolinas, and adjacent states, are finding that 

 their situation is exactly right for producing perfect 

 Apples, when they go about it right. 



Success absolutely depends on your getting the 

 kinds of trees you need. The soil, elevation, locality, 

 season of ripening, purpose, growing habit, shipping 

 facilities, and the grower himself, all need to be 



studied. Varieties that generally do well in Penn- 

 sylvania, or in Maine, or in Oregon, will not do well 

 here. Growing fruit under the conditions of the 

 Blue Ridge and the Piedmont is done by a rule 

 entirely different from that followed in other states, 

 because conditions are different. 



To illustrate the effect: Winesap colors up splen- 

 didly, gets good size, has a grand flavor on the lower 

 elevations of our southland, but has a washed-out 

 color and a copper-rivet taste when grown in the 

 North. Similarily, Northern Spy, the handsome, 

 crisp, fine old standby of New England, is as soggy 

 here as a decayed orange. It both rots and drops. 

 Only eighteen kinds are recommended for your 

 section, to suit all the different needs. There are 

 many others grown, but they are not needed. 



The Best Eighteen Kinds of Apples Adapted to This Section in the 

 Order of their Value Commercially 



Winesap. What Baldwin is to New York, what 

 Mcintosh is in Montana, Winesap is here. The 

 Apples are medium-sized, very dark red, glossy, a 

 little conical, very handsome. Flesh is yellow, firm, 

 fine; flavor is superb; keeping qualities excellent. 

 The trees are very strong and vigorous, root-growth 

 exceptionally strong, though not going deep. Wine- 

 sap is thus best adapted to low clay land, but does 

 well in any soil. It often begins to bear when three 

 or four years old, and by the tenth year bears heavy 

 crops yearly. In northern Virginia and the adjacent 

 country, at elevations of 1,500 feet and under, and 

 as high as 2,800 feet in North Carolina, Winesap is 

 the standard commercial variety. It is preeminently 

 the kind for all the lower elevations. 



Stayman's Winesap. Larger Apples than Wine- 

 sap, same shape, and lighter red. Fine keepers, 

 mellow from fall on, with plenty of juice; quality the 

 finest; always handsome and always high-priced. 

 Trees quick, healthy, large growers, bear young; 

 crops uniformly and regularly heavy. Specially 

 adapted to the higher hills, and to lighter, drier soils. 

 Above 3,000 feet in North Carolina it is succeeding 

 splendidly. Does not do so well lower. 



Grimes Golden. An early variety of the greatest 

 value. The Apples are medium-sized, cylindrical, 

 irregular, yellow, rich looking; flesh is white; in 

 quality the very highest — subacid, spicy and fra- 

 grant. At 1,500 feet in Bedford county., Va. it 

 ripens early in October. Lower and higher eleva- 

 tions extend its ripening and keeping time from 

 September until March. At 3,500 feet it is highly 

 prized. Trees are thrifty, bear very young, every 

 year, are healthy. Blossoms late. 



Yellow Newton. (Albemarle Pippin). A special- 

 condition variety that is wonderful where successful, 

 and worthless where not. The Apples are large, 

 yellow, of finest flavor, good keeping qualities, 

 always sell for top-notch prices. Trees are large, 

 rather slow growers, and do not bear much till twelve 

 years old. At home in loose, friable clay, at 1,000 

 to 1,500 feet in Virginia, or in equivalent situations. 



Jonathan. Not often planted in this section, but 

 immensely valuable. The large Apples are brilliant 

 red and yellow, of exceptionally high flavor and fine 

 texture, well adapted to cold storing. Ripen in 

 October and keep well. Trees behave well, bloom 

 late, bear young. 



Part of Tonoloway orchard near Hancock, Maryland — ^York Imperial, Grimes Golden, Gano, Winesap, Yellow Transparent and 

 Ben Davis here. Cut shows a coming orchard, two-years-old. Harrison trees — sure — because they were found to be best. 



