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fruit grower will not plant them largely until their value for 

 this particular region has been more fully proven. 



LONG ISLAND 



Long Island has the climatic conditions of a low coastal plain. 

 Its lighter sandy or sandy loam soils, especially when overlying 

 sandy or gravelly subsoils, are not well adapted to commercial 

 apple growing. It is generally recognized that the apple thrives 

 best where there is a noticeable admixture of clay in the loam or 

 in the subsoil, or both. On such soils, apples thrive on Long 

 Island. 



Leading Varieties 



The varieties named for the Hudson Valley generally do well 

 on Long Island. Such kinds as the Newtown Pippin, which 

 originated here; Esopus Spitzenburg and its daughter Jonathan, 

 both of which originated 011 the Hudson ; Rhode Island Greening, 

 which had its origin in Rhode Island ; Maiden Blush, which hails 

 from New Jersey ; Rome Beauty, Grimes Golden, Red Astrachan, 

 Duchess of Oldenburg, and Yellow Transparent are all worthy 

 of consideration in making up a planting list for the Long Isl- 

 and commercial orchard. The list may be extended for home 

 orchards or for amateur purposes so as to include other kinds of 

 peculiar merit for either culinary or dessert use; such as, Bullock 

 or American Golden Russet, Long Island Russet, Black Gilliflower, 

 Collamer Twenty Ounce, Hitchings Twenty Ounce, Bough Sweet, 

 Pumpkin Sweet, Lady Sweet, Jersey Sweet, Fall Pippin, Jacob 

 Sweet, Summer Queen, Gravenstein, Delicious, Winter Banana, 

 Opalescent, and Yellow Bellflower. 



NORTHERN NEW YORK 



The northern New York region is bounded on the south by 

 the Mohawk Valley district. It includes the Northern Plateau 

 with the Adirondack Mountains and their foothills, in each of 

 which are found the lower lying valleys of the Upper Hudson 

 and of Lake Champlain, while to the north and west lies the 

 valley of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. Northern 

 New York includes the highest and coldest districts of the state, 



