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New York AGRICULTURAL. EXPERIMENT: STATION. 301 
_ The volumes were distributed chiefly by the Legislature, 15,000 
being divided among the various members of the two houses, 2,00c 
volumes were apportioned to the Department of Agriculture at 
Albany, the remaining 2,000 being apportioned to the Experiment 
Station for distribution. Of this latter number many were already 
promised to various fruit growers and others who aided in ec 
ing the data that went to make up the volumes. 
Many of the demands for the work could not be supplied, and on 
this account a bulletin was published, entitled ““ The Apple Districts 
of New York,” 7 which, while it manifestly could not. include all the 
matter contained in the two. preceding volumes, epitomized that 
which was of the greatest practical interest, and also included other 
matter designed to aid the fruit grower. The grouping of various 
varieties of apples, said groups including all varieties apparently 
similar or known to be related, had been suggested and partly car- 
ried out in ‘“‘ The Apples of New York.”. The object of this group- 
ing, aside from its general interest, is to aid those who wished to 
plant varieties unknown to them by indicating which of the known 
varieties they resembled. While it is not claimed that this work will 
ever be wholly satisfactory, in that many varieties which resemble 
each other in some particulars do not do so in others, it was hoped 
to do some good. The characteristics of the group are given, so far 
as known. 
Thus the Reinette group, one of the largest and subdivided into 
four sections, is characterized as follows: “With few exceptions, 
rather large in size; of green or yellow ground color, with or with- 
out blush, and generally of good quality. Nearly all of the members, 
with the exception of a few in the Newtown section, thrive in New 
York. Only a few varieties of this group, however, succeed in the 
northern district.. In the various sections of this group are included 
Fall Pippin, Holland Pippin, Lowell,.Maiden Blush, White Spanish 
Reinette, Northwestern Greening, Rhode Island Greening, Sweet 
Greening, Green Newtown, Grimes, Peck Pleasant, Yellow New- 
town, Seneca Favorite, Swaar, and many others less well known. 
Anyone who has any experience with apples is familier with all, 
or practically all, of these varieties, and if he found a new variety 
classed with a portion of them, would’ at once have an idea as 
to the characteristics of the unknown sort, - 
_In addition to the -above: there is included in this bulledan a 
"Bul. 275; also Rpt. 25:337-307 (1906). 
