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with great interest here, and many of the varieties have been or are being 

 tested. Mr. Charles Gibb, of AbbotsforJ, Quebec, was the associate of Profes- 

 sor Budd in his expedition to central an(i eastern Eurojia for the purpose of 

 studying varieties and climates, and it is understood that he has since made 

 a second visit to that region upon the same business. 



For the purpose of, as far as practicable, adapting the, to liS, unpronounce- 

 able pomological nomenclature of Russia to the needs of English-speaking 

 people, the American Pomological Society, at its meeting at Grand Rapids, 

 Michigan, in 1885, constituted Mr. Gibb a committee of one to revise and, 

 when needful, to Anglicize the names of these introduced varieties; an 

 onerous and perplexing task, which he has now completed ; his final report 

 having been made at the recent meeting of that society at Boston. 



The pomology of the sea-board poition of the state of Main is so affected 

 by oceauic influences that it does not differ very widely from that of southern 

 New England. The more northern interior is yet a new and comparatively 

 unimproved region, in which fruit culture is yet in a comparatively crude 

 state. It is understood, upon the authority of Dr. Iloskins, that there exists 

 there an extensive tract of lake country well adapted to the cultivation of 

 the apple — it baing moderately elevated, with convenient access by river navi- 

 gation to the sea-board. Its pomology, when developed, may be expected to 

 assimilate somewhat closely with that of the adjacent inland province of 

 Quebec, which does not differ very widely from that of the extteme northern 

 portions of western New England. 



'i. The district of the Great Lakes includes central and western New York, 

 and thence westward to and including the lower peninsula of Michigan. 



So varied are the local influences of the great lakes westward of eastern New 

 York and thence to Wisconsin aud Minnesota, modiGed as such influences 

 are by the direction of prevailing winds, that a climatic division of this region 

 upon parallels of latitude become impracticable. 



In ctntral and western New York, and equally in the lower peninsula of 

 Michigan, these influences are so far equivalent to the oceanic influences 

 which modify the climate of southern and eastern New England, that their 

 pomology is practically indentical, and may therefore be considered as mainly 

 without the scope of the subject under consideration. 



3. The Wisconsin lake district includes a comparatively limited region in 

 Wisconsin, lying along the western shore of Lake Michigan, which dt-rives a 

 very perceptible climatic advantage from such proximity, which would doubt- 

 less be fully the equivalent of that realized upou the eastern shore, but for 

 the fact that the prevailing winds of that region are westerly, bringing an in- 

 creased tendency to drought and to paroxysms of cold in winter which reach 

 the region without the mellowing influences of the open waters of Lake Michi- 

 gan ; thus creating a climate intermediate between that of the Upper Missis- 

 sippi valley and that of the lake region proper. 



4. The Lake Superior district, including the upper peninsula of Michigan, 

 togather with a strip of northern Wisconsin along the south shore of Lake 

 Superior. Although extending northward b3yond the parallel of 47°, this 

 district is yet so favorably affected in climate by the surrounding lakes, that 

 it escapes some of the eeventy of the climate of regions upon that parallel 

 further west. 



Although fruit culture has so far received but slight atiemion tin r.>, the 

 experience already had indicates, as may have bee i inferred from is la uitrine 



