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THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 



Blooming Season and Season of Ripening of Pear- Varieties — Concluded 



Pound 



President Drouard . . 



Pr(5sident Mas 



Raymond 



Reeder 



Riehl Best 



Ritson 



Romain 



Roosevelt 



Rossney 



Russet Bartlett 



Rutter 



Seckel 



Seneca 



Sha Lea 



Sheldon 



Siebold 



Souvenir de Congrcs 

 Souvenir d'EspSren . 



Sudduth 



Summer Beauty .... 

 Summer Doyenne. . 



Treyve 



Triumph 



Tyson 



Ulm 



Vermont Beauty. . . 

 White Doyenn^ .... 



Wilder Early 



Winter Bartlett .... 



Winter Nelis 



Worden Seckel 



Blooming season 



Very 

 early 



Early 



Mid- 

 season 



Late 



Very 

 late 



Ripening season 



Very 

 early 



Early 



Mid- 

 season 



Late 



Very 

 late 



The latitude of the Smith Astronomical Observatory, a quarter of a 

 mile from the Station orchards, is 42° 52' 46.2"; the altitude of the orchards 

 is from five hundred to five hundred and twenty-five feet above the sea 

 level. The soil is a loamy but rather cold clay; the orchards lie about a 

 mile west of Seneca Lake, a body of water forty miles in length and from 

 one to three and one-half miles in width and more than six hundred feet 

 deep. The lake has frozen over but a few times since the region was 

 settled, over a hundred years ago, and has a very beneficial influence on 

 the adjacent country in lessening the cold of winter and the heat of summer 

 and in preventing early blooming. 



