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ternoon on "New York Methods of Growing- and Marketing: 

 Apples.'' ^^'e have a gentleman here from the g-reat fniit 

 growing state of New York. A great many of you have seen 

 him and met him. I have the pleasure of introducing to you 

 Mr. Lloyd S. Tenny of Hilton, New York, who will speak 

 on this subject. 



New York Methods of Growing and 

 Marketing Apples. 



By Lloyd S. Tenny, Hilton, N. Y. 



Mr. Chairman and Members 'of the Connecticut Pomolooical 

 Society : 



I esteem it quite a privilege and pleasure to be with you 

 to-day, and while I think it is asking a good deal of a New 

 York man to come to Connecticut and try to tell you any- 

 thing new regarding orcharding, yet I am here, and I shall 

 attempt to give you something of our methods. Some of 

 them are good and some of them are bad. While I shall 

 talk about both, I feel safe in saying that you will all 

 say that as to the good methods they are just the ones that 

 you are all using, while as to the bad, you absolutely never 

 heard of them before. (Laughter). I hope that is true. 



It would be very interesting indeed for us this after- 

 noon if we could spend some little time in studying the de- 

 velopment and liistory of the apple industry in the great Em- 

 pire State, but we cannot go into that to any great extent. 

 Suffice it to say, that our home garden orchards date back 

 to a very early period in our history. We have an account 

 of these little home gardens being planted around the home 

 places back in the 1700's, and we have a very good account 

 of a variety of seedlings which developed, or which came 

 from those i:)lantings very early in the history of our state, 

 and that indicates one thing, namely, that in New York state 

 certain localities were especially favored as to their fruit 

 growing possibilities. Very early these little home gardens 



