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Report of the Horticulturist of the 



in the following pages, but it is not expected that strict com- 

 parisons can be safely made from the reports which are here 

 presented. 



Each kind of fruit will now be considered separately, and 

 reports of the same kind of fruit from the various sections of 

 the state, as already explained, will be set side by side for com- 

 parison. 



Apples. 



Northern New YorTc. — Of the fifty-eight kinds mentioned by 

 correspondents from northern New York, the following were 

 named most frequently: 



VARIETY. 



Baldwin 



Ben Davis 



Fameuse 



Northern vSpy 



Oldenburff 



Red Astraehan 



Rhode Island Greening 



Talman Sweet 



Tompkins King 



Wealthy 



Yellow Transparent . .. 



Times Mentioned. 



Home 

 use. 



10 



9 



13 



11 



16 



15 



4 



6 



Market. 



18 



21 



17 



21 



16 



15 



21 



11 



8 



7 



3 



Total 

 reports. 



21 

 24 

 23 

 28 

 26 

 23 

 31 

 25 

 10 

 12 

 10 



Per Cent, of Winter Injury 

 Reported. 



Greatest. 



50 

 75 

 20 

 50 



100 

 75 

 75 



100 

 75 

 75 

 50 



Average 



of all 

 reports. 



7 



13 



2 



9 



14 



11 



13 



15 



11 



9 



9 



Other varieties w^hich are mentioned favorably for this section 

 are Mcintosh, St. Lawrence, Stone (sometimes erroneously called 

 Hethel), and a new kind, a seedling of Stone, called Oel Austin. 



Eastern Neiv York. — Of the thirty-three kinds mentioned in 

 the reports from this section, the following were named most 

 frequently: 



