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Rome through Pulaski to Lake Ontario. This includes the west- 

 ern part of the Lake Champlain valley, the northern part of the 

 Mohawk valley, the northeastern shore of Lake Ontario and 

 the southern part of the valley of the St. Lawrence river so 

 far as it is included in New York State. Portions of the Cham- 

 plain and St. Lawrence valleys have gained a reputation for 

 producing apples of high color and excellent flavor. Certain 

 varieties, notably the Fameuse, seem to do better there than 

 they do in most other sections of the state. It will be remem- 

 bered that region contains the Adirondack wilderness, and it 

 is not surprising that reports from many of its interior localities 

 show that comparatively little attention is given to the culti- 

 vation of fruit. In such places wild small fruits and seedling 

 apples or crab apples are depended on chiefly for home-grown 

 fruit. One locality in Hamilton county reports that the ther- 

 mometer dropped as low as 48° below zero. Seven other places 

 reported lowest temperatures varying from 40° to 46° below 

 zero, and the average of the forty-eight reports on lowest tem- 

 perature which were received from the northern New York sec- 

 tion is nearly 33° below zero ( — 32.9°). 



Section II. — Eastern New York. — The region extending south- 

 ward from the Mohawk river, from Rome to the Hudson, and 

 from the south line of Washington county to the Fishkill moun- 

 tains, occupying the lower part of the Mohawk valley and the 

 middle section of the Hudson valley. It extends eastward to 

 Massachusetts and westward into the Catskills. It includes the 

 counties of Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Columbia, Greene 

 and Ulster. 



This section contains the famous plum-growing districts of 

 the Hudson valley, and produces large quantities of fruit of 

 various kinds. In the more favored portions of this territory 

 pears, sweet cherries, peaches and plums are grown in perfec- 

 tion. The lowest temperature reported from this region is 32° 

 below zero, which occurred in the northwestern part of Rensse- 

 laer county. The average of seventeen reports on lowest tem- 

 perature is 21° below zero. 



