Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . the Mississippi Valley andnorthward. At present the number of apple varieties is very large. InAmerica alone between 1804 and 1904 over 7200 distinct varietal names ofapples were published, besides 383 named varieties of crabs. It is needlessto say that the great majority are worthless. Cultural Range.—In eastern America the apple is grown commercially (456) THE POME FRUITS 457 from the plateaus of Georgia and Alabama on the south to Quebec and NovaScotia on the north and east. On
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . the Mississippi Valley andnorthward. At present the number of apple varieties is very large. InAmerica alone between 1804 and 1904 over 7200 distinct varietal names ofapples were published, besides 383 named varieties of crabs. It is needlessto say that the great majority are worthless. Cultural Range.—In eastern America the apple is grown commercially (456) THE POME FRUITS 457 from the plateaus of Georgia and Alabama on the south to Quebec and NovaScotia on the north and east. On the Pacific Slope it succeeds well fromthe south-central portion of California to British Columbia. Betweenthese regions it is grown more or less between parallels 33 and 46 degreesnorth latitude, except where the moisture is insufficient. With properselection of varieties and care, good home orchards or moderate-sizedcommercial plantings can be grown successfully over practically all thisregion. The range of the crabs extends farther north. Propagation.—Apples are propagated by root or whip grafting in. Well Located Apple winter on whole or piece roots, by crown grafting in the spring or bybudding in late summer or early autumn. There is little or no differencebetween these methods so far as the growth of the resulting trees in theorchard is concerned. The seeds to produce the roots used as stocks come largely from France,though some are also produced in Vermont. The former come from theso-called French crab, which is nothing but the wild native apple or Pyrusmains of France. The seedlings from them are produced chiefly in thesoil of the Kansas River Valley. In the central northwest these stocks are not sufficiently hardy, and 1 Courtesy of The Macmillan Company, N. Y. From How to Choose a Farm, by Hunt. 458 SUCCESSFUL FARMING seedlings of the crab hybrids or of the pure Pyrus baccata are much preferredas the root stocks for those sections. Budding or crown-graft
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