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These totals do not include the crabs. If they are added to 

 this inventory the number of accredited names is increased by about 

 375. making in all 7,075. Two hundred and seventy-five names are 

 added to the synonyms making 8,375, ^^^^^^ bringing up the total 

 number of published names, including synonyms, to about 15,400. 



Of the approximately 6,700 (not including the crabs) accredit- 

 ed varietal names, the origin of about 3,900 varieties is known with 

 more or less certainty and designated in the bulletin mentioned by 

 state for the native varieties and by the country for the introduced 

 or foreign sorts. Of these 3,900 varieties, the origin of which is 

 designated 309 if my account is correct, are accredited to Pennsyl- 

 vania though in case of 42 of these — a rather large percentage to 

 be sure — there is some cjuestion as to their being of Pennsylvania 

 origin. 



Of course a large proportion of the 6,700 varieties in the cata- 

 log, are now unknown in cultivation. This is made evident by the 

 last revision of the American Pomological Society's "recommended 

 lists" of varieties for cultivation in the various sections of the 

 United States and Canada. This revision was published in June, 

 1QC9, as Bulletin 151 in the Bureau of Plant Industry series. 

 The list^of recommended varieties of apples contains 319 names of 

 varieties which have been recommended by some fruit grower, 

 professional pomologists, or others capable of giving advice in the 

 matter for planting in some section of the country. The infer- 

 ence is then that a little more than 300 varieties include all, or at 

 least nearly all, (not counting local sorts many of which are valu- 

 able ) , of the really important sorts that are being grown at the 

 present time. In fact it would be surprising if this number could 

 not be greatly reduced without loss to the apple industry. Penn- 

 sylvania is credited with seventeen of these 319 sorts as place of 

 origin with three additional ones that are doubtful in this respect. 

 Forty-nine of the 319 are of foreign origin including twenty-four 

 Russian sorts and several which originated in Canada. 



With so long a list of varieties from which to choose, there is 

 some difficulty in deciding just what ones should be named in the 

 present connection. As a foundation for a list it is of interest to 

 refer to the revised catalog of recommended varieties of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society above mentioned. For the district that 

 includes this region, the following varieties are the ones highly 

 recommended : Benoni, Early Plarvest, Gravenstein, Grimes, 

 ^faiden Blush, ^Margaret, Red Astrachan, Rome Beauty, Smoke- 

 house, Stayman Winesap, Wealthy, Winesap, Yellow Transparent, 

 and York Imperial — fourteen varieties. But Adams county is very 

 near the border line between two of the districts defined by the 

 American Pomological Society. As the boundary limits of these 

 districts are more or less arbitrary it may be of interest to note the 

 highly recommended varieties in the adjoining district. In addi- 

 tion to the above named sorts, they are as follo\\'s : Arkansas 

 (Alammoth Black Twig) Ben Davis, Bough (Sweet Bough), Bun- 

 combe, Chenango, Gano, Golden Sweet, Horse, Ingram, Jefferis, 

 Jonathan, Limbertwig, ^^lissouri, Oldenburg (Duchess of Olden- 



