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The California fruits and how to grow them; . nning. APPLES FOR DIFFERENT REGIONS 241 Apple varieties approved by California growers. VARIETIES. Alexander , Arkansas Beauty Arkansas Black Baldwin Ben Davis Bietigheimer Black Ben Davis Cooks Seedling Delicious Early Harvest Early Strawberry Esopus Spitzenburg Fall Pippin Pameuse Gravenstein Gloria Mundi Hoover Jonathan Langford Lawver Maidens Blush Marshalls Red Missouri Pippin Nickajack Northern Spy Oldenburg Duchess Ortley Rawless Janet Red Astracan Red June Red Pearmain Rhode Island Greening... Romanite Rome Beauty Smiths Cider Skinners Seedling Stark Stayman Winesap Swaar Tompkins King Vandevere Wagener Wealthy White Astracan White Winter Pearmain. Williamss Favorite Winesap Winter Banana Yellow Bellflower Yellow Newton Pippin... Yellow Transparent York Imperial Northern CentralCoast Coast region. region. Interior Mountain valleys valleys Southern and and California foot-hills, plateau. * Indicates that the variety is approved in the region designated.** Most highly commended.. 242 • CHAPTER XVIII THE APRICOT California has nearly three million apricot trees which standin the open air without protection of any kind and bear large, luscious fruit. That apricot trees can do this constitutes one of theunique features of California fruit growing and proclaims it differ-ent from fruit growing in other States, for, excepting a few locali-ties in other parts of the Pacific slope, California has a monopolyof commercial apricot growing, and nowhere else in the world doesthe fruit attain such commercial importance. Although the apri-cot has been grown here from the earliest days of the Americanoccupation, and though since the opening of the export trade incanned and dried fruits, the apricot has gained in popularity, theplanting of apricot orchards has not proceeded recently with greatrapidity, although indications are that our distant patrons are onlyjust beginning to recognize the desirability of the fruit, and theirdem