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Dates of Full Bloom Table 4 Variety Full bloom Variety Full bloom z David pear 5/18/2014 Anoka 5/30/2014 z Illinka Pear 5/20/2014 Beacon 5/30/2014 Dolgo sdl 5 5/26/2014 Connell Red 5/30/2014 Dolgo sdl 6 5/26/2014 Marlin Stephens 5/30/2014 Tasty 5/26/2014 Antonovka 109 5/30/2014 z Staceyville Pear 5/26/2014 Haralred 5/30/2014 Dolgo sdl 2 5/26/2014 Fireside 5/30/2014 Dolgo sdl 4 5/26/2014 Almata 5/30/2014 Antonovka 37 5/26/2014 Freedom 5/30/2014 Treehouse Vanilla 5/26/2014 Haralson 5/30/2014 Dolgo (grafted) 5/26/2014 Prairie Spy 5/30/2014 Parkland 5/26/2014 Bedford 6/1/2014 Norland 5/26/2014 Bethel 6/1/2014 z Luscious Pear 5/26/2014 Centennial Crab 6/1/2014 Antonovka 40 5/26/2014 Cranberry 6/1/2014 Equinox 5/27/2014 Dudley 6/1/2014 Bowing 5/28/2014 Gingergold 6/1/2014 Summerred 5/28/2014 Heyer 12 6/1/2014 z Okolo Pear 5/28/2014 Howgate Wonder 6/1/2014 z Shinseiki Pear 5/28/2014 Irish peach 6/1/2014 z Summercrisp Pear 5/28/2014 Norson 6/1/2014 Crimson Beauty 5/28/2014 Patterson 6/1/2014 Breaky 5/28/2014 Quinte 6/1/2014 Antonovka 37 5/29/2014 Rambo 6/1/2014 Peach 5/29/2014 Ranetka 6/1/2014 Scott Winter 5/29/2014 Red Astrachan 6/1/2014 Adanac 5/30/2014 Red Burke 6/1/2014 Bud 57-233 5/30/2014 Shafer 6/1/2014 Bud 9 5/30/2014 St. Lawrence 6/1/2014 Red Baron 5/30/2014 Sunrise 6/1/2014 Trent 5/30/2014 Wagener 6/1/2014 Wealthy 5/30/2014 Westfield SNF 6/1/2014 Wedge 5/30/2014 White angel 6/1/2014 Yellow Transparent 5/30/2014 White Pippin 6/1/2014 z Walden Large Winesap 6/1/2014 Pear 5/30/2014 Wodarz 6/1/2014 Milwaukee 5/30/2014 Yellow Bellflower 6/1/2014 Leo 5/30/2014 z Hill Pear 6/1/2014 Mantet 5/30/2014 Zabergau Reinette 6/1/2014 Antonovka 48 5/30/2014 Lord Lambourne 6/1/2014 Dates of Full Bloom Table 4 Variety Full bloom Variety Full bloom Macfree 6/1/2014 Hudson's Golden Pomme Gris 6/1/2014 Gem 6/2/2014 Westland 6/1/2014 Antonovka 49 6/2/2014 Paula Red 6/1/2014 Keepsake 6/2/2014 Gravenstein 6/1/2014 Red Wealthy 6/2/2014 3 Sisters 6/1/2014 Quebec belle 2-Jun Northern Lights Walden Golden 6/3/2014 Gold 6/1/2014 Walden Sunset 6/3/2014 Atlas 6/1/2014 Sweet 16 6/3/2014 Dayton 6/1/2014 Rodgers Red 3-Jun Honeycrisp 6/1/2014 Lobo 6/4/2014 Mn 852299 6/1/2014 Redrock 6/4/2014 Peace Garden 6/1/2014 Hidden rose 6/4/2014 Vista Bella 6/1/2014 Cox's Orange Pippin 6/4/2014 Whitney 6/1/2014 75413 6/4/2014 Ashmead's Kernel 6/1/2014 Wacota 6/5/2014 Chestnut Crab 6/1/2014 Hazen 6/5/2014 Fameuse 6/1/2014 NW Greening 6/6/2014 Liberty 6/1/2014 Smokehouse 6/6/2014 Nova 6/1/2014 Noran 6/1/2014 Summer Pearmain 6/1/2014 Burgundy 6/1/2014 McIntosh 6/1/2014 Wolf River 6/1/2014 Selkirk 6/1/2014 Audrey's Transparent 6/2/2014 Autumn Artic 6/2/2014 Duchess 6/2/2014 Elstar 6/2/2014 Goodland 6/2/2014 Honeygold 6/2/2014 Lodi 6/2/2014 Lowland raspberry 6/2/2014 Niagara 6/2/2014 Perriwinkle 6/2/2014 Pink Pearl 6/2/2014 Spencer 6/2/2014 Walden Calville 6/2/2014 Winter Banana 6/2/2014 .

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Apple Varieties in Maine Frederick Charles Bradford
The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Electronic Theses and Dissertations Fogler Library 6-1911 Apple Varieties in Maine Frederick Charles Bradford Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd Part of the Agriculture Commons Recommended Citation Bradford, Frederick Charles, "Apple Varieties in Maine" (1911). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2384. http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2384 This Open-Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Maine in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE by FREDERICK CHARLES BRADFORD, B. S . Orono, Maine. June, 1911. 8 2 8 5 INTRODUCTION The following pages represent an effort to trace the causes of the changing procession of varieties of apples grown in Maine. To this end the history of fruit growing in Maine has been carefully studied, largely through the Agricultural Reports from 1850 to 1909 and the columns of the Maine Farmer fran 1838 to 1875. The inquiry has been confined as rigidly as possible to this state, out side sources being referred to only for sake of compari son. Rather incidentally, soil influences, modifications due to climate, etc., have been considered. Naturally* since the inquiry was limited to printed record, nothing new has been discovered in this study. Perhaps a somewhat new point of view has been achieved. And, since early Maine pomological literature has been rather neglected by our leading writers, some few forgot ten facts have been exhumed.
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