STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 145 



FRUIT REPORT FOE THE ROCHESTER DISTRICT. 



The crop of winter fruit for 1882, was the largest ever grown in 

 this district. And tlie only serious drawback to its success, as far as 

 I could learn, was the ravages of the codling moth. This pest 

 was very troublesome in many parts of the district, and in my 

 own orchard it caused from one-half to two-thirds of all my fruit 

 to fall before maturity. 



The severe frost the latter part of May that wiped out the greater 

 part of our summer fruits, did but little, if any injury, to our win- 

 ter varieties. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



We fruited 45 varieties of the so-called Russians, From the 

 Duchess we gathered perhaps one-third of a fair average crop, 

 while from the other 44 varieties we probably did not get over ten 

 bushels of fruit. 



Robert Waldron has some of the finest new seedling apples in 

 this district. Seedlings from the Fameuse that show a marked 

 resemblance to that well-known variety. 



We have a seedling sweet apple that may possibly prove equal 

 in quality to the Price's Sweet, with tree much hardier. 



Sidney Corp, of Hammond, exhibited at our State Fair a plate 

 of the largest and finest Duchess of Oldensburgs ever grown in this 

 region of country, one measuring about twelve and a half inches 

 in circumference. 



Article 10th of our Constitution makes it the duty of the Gen- 

 eral Fruit Committee to re,>ort annually a limited list of fruits best 

 adapted to general cultivation in the State at large. Ir ^^esponse 

 to this duty I will name the following : Wealthy, Rollins j?ippin, 

 Duchess and Elgin Beauty. We doubtless have several other new 

 seedlings that will prove as good as those named, on further trial. 



The Pippin is rather late in coming into bearing ; we have not 

 fully tested its bearing qualities, but as far as its bemg hardy is 

 concerned, we are well satisfied, and there is no winter fruit grown 

 in the State that suits our taste better. Would not adyise planting 

 it extensively till we know more of its bearing qualities. 



Pears have received but little attention in this vicinity; the 

 Flemi ih Beautj- being the only sort cultivated here, and this only 

 to a very limited extent. We have raised a few specimens of this 

 pear every year for some eight or ten years. Exhibited three plates 

 at our last State Fair. We have three or four varieties of seedling 

 pears that look promising. 



Cherries stood the hard frost in May better than either the apple 

 or pear, and had it not been for the worms we should have had a 

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