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taken from natural fruit, found growing wild in the woods, but 

 which had undoubtedly been scattered there by the Indians. In 

 the orchard of T. B. Wilson, Hall, there stood until recently an 

 apple tree said to have been planted by the Indians. Parts of the 

 tree had been grafted to different species, and each year it bore 

 four or five varieties. It 1896, it produced sixteen barrels of 

 apples in all. 



Near Waterloo apple orchards were set out about 1800, although 

 the earliest settlers from Pennsylvania found Indian orchards and 

 scattering trees there at that time. Even before this date Samuel 

 ( 'astnor is recorded as having planted an orchard on his claim a 

 little east of Penn Yan. 



In the early days Tompkins County played an important role in 

 the apple industry. We are told that in 1800 Nathaniel King, 

 who lived at Trumansburg, returned to Dutchess County on horse- 

 back in order to obtain apple seeds with which to start a nursery. 

 From the trees grown by him, about twenty orchards were planted 

 in his neighborhood, ranging from forty to seventy-five trees each. 

 Twenty to fifty years later, after grafting had been introduced, 

 the trees were grafted to improved varieties, such as the Green- 

 ing, Bomanite, Sweet Bough, and King. Some time during the 

 fifties, a nursery was started at Frog Pond, now Fnmtenac Beach 

 on Cayuga Lake, and the trees were budded mostly to Kings, 

 Greenings, and Baldwins. Of recent years the last trees of this 

 nursery were set out as a large orchard near Trumansburg, and 

 this is proving one of the best orchards in that section to-day. 



In Wayne and Monroe counties the first orchards were planted 

 about 1795, and in Orleans County a little later. In the latter 

 county the earliest tree of which we have record was planted at 

 the mouth of Johnson's Creek by a young girl named Kachel 

 Lovell, and the wood of this tree is now preserved by the Pioneer 

 Society of Orleans County. In the north of the county, orchards 

 were set out on the bank of Johnson's Creek in 1807. The trees 

 here are still standing and are in good condition. Another orchard 

 wes set out at Oak Orchard Creek about 1808, and still another at 

 Holley in 1820. Among the varieties grown on the latter were the 

 Greening and Russett, which had probably been brought from Long 

 Island. 



