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Report of the Horticulturist of the 



Southeastern Neiv York. — Reports from this section raentiou 

 fifty-seven varieties, and in but few localities was any winter 

 injury to any of them noticed. The following is a list of those 

 which were reported from five or more towns: 



variety. 



Baldwin 



Ben Davis 



Fall Pippin 



Gravenstein 



Green Newtown Pippin... 



Hubbardston 



Northern Spy 



R. I. Greening 



Roxbury Russet 



Talman Sweet 



Tompkins King 



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Westchester county reports 10 per cent, injury to Baldwin at 

 South Salem and Yorktown; 50 per cent, to Golden Russet at 

 Yorktown; 75 per cent, at New Castle to Hubbardston and 25 

 per cent, to Nyack Pippin; 25 per cent, to Rhode Island Green- 

 ing at Yorktown. Orange county reports 35 per cent, injury to 

 Green Newtown Pippin, at Hamptonberg, 35 per cent, to North- 

 ern Spy and 50 per cent, to Rhode Island Greening. No other 

 injury to apples is reported in this part of the state. 



Pears. 



Northern New York. — In many parts of northern New York 

 pears do not succeed at all, or are grown only for home use. 

 Of the fourteen kinds named by correspondents from this section 

 of the state, the following were mentioned most frequently: 



