1846.] Fruits of Erie County. 295 



cellence; those on the limestone formation next, and those on the 

 shale subdivision as inferior to the others, although usually good; 

 but such as are situated immediately within the influence of the 

 lake and river, as decidedly superior to other localities in their 

 respective geological divisions. 



As to the fruits themselves, they flourish more or less, accord- 

 ing to their kind, the particular locality on which they are placed, 

 and the care with which they are treated; but as I presume you 

 refer only to the hardy fruits of our climate, 1 shall confine my 

 attention solely to such. First, then, of 



The Ap'ple. All the varieties which grow north of the High- 

 lands on the Hudson river, flourish in great perfection with us. 

 Even the Newtown pippin, which is remarked by some pomolo- 

 gists not to come to full maturity in w^estern New York, ripens 

 well on the warm soils of the salt groups, and near the Niagara. 

 Among the most prominent and excellent of our apples, may be 

 named in the order of their ripening, the yellow harvest, Wil- 

 liams' favorite, sweet bough, golden sweeting, early lustre, belle 

 bonne, Jersey sweeting, gravensteen, rambo, Holland or fall pip- 

 pin, seek-no-farther, Belmont or waxen apple, Rhode Island green- 

 ing. The various family of russets, swar, Spitzenberg, Baldwin, 

 yellow belflower, blue pearmain, Tallman sweeting, northern spy, 

 &c., &c. 



Until within five years past, our fruit has been perfectly free 

 from worms, with which it is now sometimes infected at the core, 

 but not to such extent as to essentially injure the crop. No fairer 

 or finer flavored apples can be found, than those produced on the 

 borders of our great waters, where the crop was never knoivn to 

 fail in a season of bloom, and our fruits are generally good 

 throughout the county. 



Pears flourish equally well with apples, and are subject to the 

 same general remarks; all kinds producing well, that have been 

 introduced — many varieties of which, are of the choicest descrip- 

 tion, from the eastern, and our local nurseries. The white doy- 

 anne, (or virgalieu,) the pear of all others, par excellence, to my 

 taste, flourishes with us in the highest perfection. 



The Quince, grows and produces well in the salt and lime 



