viii PREFACE. 



For one who is interested in growing- apples either for home use 

 or for commercial purposes, or in supplying nursery trees for orchard 

 planting, or in any of the industries accessory to that of apple-grow- 

 ing, such as storing and marketing the fruit or manufacturing fruit 

 products, it is at times a great advantage to have accessible for 

 ready reference full descriptions of the different varieties of apples, 

 each under the name which pomological authorities are accepting as 

 correct, together with the list of synonyms by which the variety has 

 been known. It is for the purpose of making such information more 

 generally available that this report on the apples of New York has 

 been prepared. This, the first volume of the report, treats of winter 

 apples which are in season with Hubbardston and Tompkins King 

 or later. Earlier varieties are treated in the succeeding volume. 



The following considerations have generally governed the writer 

 in determining what varieties should be noticed in this report. 



First, the comparative value of the variety for planting in any part 

 of the state as determined by its record at this Station, by numerous 

 systematic reports collected especially for this report from New York 

 fruit growers and from men interested in buying and storing fruit in 

 New York and elsewhere, by information published in books, cata- 

 logues and periodical literature, and by extensive correspondence. 



Second, the probable value in this state of new or comparatively 

 little known varieties. The opinions which the writer has expressed 

 regarding their probable value are based upon the records which 

 these varieties have made in other regions, their general resem- 

 blance to other varieties which are better known in this state, and 

 their parentage or origin. 



Third, many varieties have been noticed, not because they now are 

 or promise to become valuable in New York, but rather because they 

 are not or do not promise to become valuable here. It is quite as im- 

 portant for the inexperienced prospective planter to know what 

 varieties are unworthy as well as to know what ones are the most 

 worthy of his care and attention. This is particularly true in the 

 case of- those varieties which are being urged upon New York fruit 

 growers because they have succeeded elsewhere, but which have as 

 yet been tried only in regions where the conditions are markedly 



