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THE FRUIT INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK STATE 



In the vicinity of Geneva, tradition tells us, several nurseries 

 were established among the stumps left in the old Indian orchards 

 after Sullivan's raid of 1779. One of these was started in 1792, 

 on the farm of Nathan White, four miles west of Geneva, and in 

 the year 1884 was still proving profitable. About 1880, settlers 

 from New England took up farming just west of Geneva and there 

 found new trees sprouted from orchards that Sullivan had burned. 

 In these they inserted scions that they had brought with them, and 

 later the trees were grafted to improved varieties. At about the 

 same date an old Indian orchard that Sullivan had left untouched 



FIG. 197. INDIAN APPLE TREE, NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD, THAT STOOD UNTIL 



EECENTLY IN ORCHARD OF T. B. WILSON, HALL, N. Y. 

 (From "Apples of New York," ly Professor S. A, Beach) 



was discovered near Seneca Castle. A number of seedling trees 

 of sufficient value to propagate were developed from this. 



Near the New York State Experiment Station was still 

 another orchard set out by the Indians in 1817. This was in full 

 bearing up to the year 1867, but at that time was removed to plant 

 a nursery. 



The first orchard near Hall, New York, was developed on the 

 farm of Edward Burrell about 1801 from seed said to have been 



