THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 5 



The introduction of the apple into New York along with other 

 old world fruits was thus begun nearly three hundred years ago. 

 In the following years, at one time or another, very many of the 

 cultivated varieties of apples of Western Europe were brought here, 

 and this importation has been kept up with each succeeding genera- 

 tion till the present time. In the earliest settlements doubtless the 

 varieties which were first brought into New York were mostly from 

 Holland. Later some came from Germany, France and other con- 



FIG. i. INDIAN APPLE TREE STILL STANDING NEAR THE GENEVA EXPERIMENT 



STATION IN 1904. 



tinental countries, and many from the British Isles, either directly 

 or through neighboring colonies. 



The Early Dissemination of the Apple. When once the apple 

 was introduced its dissemination kept pace with the progress of the 

 settlement of the country. In fact, it was carried by Indians, 

 traders and white missionaries far into the wilderness beyond the 

 outermost white settlements. Reports of General Sullivan's expedi- 

 tion, in 1779, against the Cayttgas and Senecas, in describing the 

 Indian villages which were then destroyed, make frequent mention 



