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dessert and kitchen ; most of these have been tried or prepared in 

 one or more ways for the table. It may usually be assumed, but 

 not always, that a good dessert apple is a good kitchen apple. A 

 dessert apple may always be considered valuable for home use. 

 Desirability for cider or for local, general or foreign markets is 

 designated only under " remarks." 



Season. — The tenth column shows the season of varieties. 

 The data regarding keeping quality has been taken from apples in 

 common storage and covers periods of from one to ten seasons. 

 The amount of fruit stored ranges from a peck to a bushel, the aim 

 being to put in storage each year a bushel of each variety for the 

 long-keeping test. The months given are those in which the apples 

 become edible and in which they pass entirely out of season — a 

 very wide range for which allowance must be made. 



Apple regions of New York. — The next nine columns list apples 

 for the nine pomological regions into which New York may be 

 divided. The lists are founded upon the reputed behavior of the 

 varieties in the regions as to size, color, keeping quality, and flavor 

 of fruit; and as to longevity, vigor, health and productiveness of 

 tree. In some cases varieties have been put in the list for a region 

 because of its reputation as to the characters named in an adjoin- 

 ing or similar region. 



The pomological regions of New York have been set off some- 

 what in accordance with the physical geography of the State but 

 more particularly with reference to the distribution of its wild and 

 domesticated plants. Not much attention could be paid to soils, 

 since through glacial action these have been carried to and fro so 

 that there are few large areas in the State in which there is any 

 great degree of uniformity. It must not be thought, however, 

 that soils are not important determinants of profitable fruit- 

 growing ; to the contrary, they set the seal of profit of kind and of 

 variety of fruit and must ever be considered. 



The following are the nine pomological regions of New York : 



Long Island. — This district is composed of the sandy lowland 

 of Long Island. It is a low plain covered with a thick deposit 



