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established a small nursery, from which apple trees and seedlings 

 \\cic rather widely disseminated. Fifty years later, another 

 orchard was planted in Onondaga County, on what is now the 

 farm of Grant Hutchings near Syracuse, by Gideon Seely, a 

 surveyor employed by the state to lay out military tracts. Many 

 of these trees are in bearing even now, and it is still possible to 

 detect the union of the graft from the original tree to the improved 

 varieties. 



FIG. 190. TABLET UNVEILED TO PRIMATE APPLE TREE IN TOWN OF 

 CAMILLUS, ONONDAGA COUNTY, BY JOHN T. ROBERTS, SEPTEMBER, 1903 



On the tablet is the following inscription : " On this farm Calvin D. 

 Bingham, about 1840, produced the marvelous Primate apple, named by 

 Charles P. Cowles. God's Earth is full of love to man." 



In Seneca County, apple trees were planted by Dr. Alexander 

 Coventry on a large farm in the northwest corner of the town of 

 Fayette, but not long after, in the year 1792, Dr. Silas Halsey, of 

 Long Island, settled at Ovid, and the same year, after procuring a 

 quart of apple seed from an Indian orchard near Lodi Landing, he 

 started a small nursery. In the same year still another orchard 

 was planted at Ovid by Joseph Wilson, and shortly after Colonel 

 Rynear Covert started one at Farmerville, now known as the vil- 

 lage of Interlaken. 



