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ENCYCLOPEDIA OK PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



Serve at once. Or the salt, pepper, but- 

 ter, and a tablespoonful of flour may be 

 added to the hashed turnips; then the 

 stewpan may be placed over the hot fire 

 and shaken frequently to toss up the tur- 

 nips. When the turnii)s have been cook- 

 ing five minutes in this manner acid half 

 a pint of meat stock or of milk and cook 

 ten minutes. 



Maria Parloa, 

 Washington. D. C. 



Red Astrachan Apple for Massachu- 

 setts. See Massachusetts. 



Red Spiders or Mites. See under Apple 

 Pests and Currant Pests. 



Rhode Island Greening Apple for 

 Massachusetts. See Massachusetts. 



Rhode Island 



Rhode Island is the smallest state in 

 the Union and is often called "Little 

 Rhoda." Its extreme length is 48 miles, 

 its extreme width is 36 miles, and it con- 

 tains 1,250 square miles of territory. 



The general surface of the state is un- 

 dulating and hilly, but the hills are low, 

 the highest reaching an altitude of only 

 850 feet. On the east and south the 

 coast line is indented with bays and nav- 

 igable inlets, the chief of which is Nar- 

 ragansett Day. Then there are lakes and 

 islands, all of which add to the beauty 

 of the scenery and tend to modify the 

 climate. Over the whole state there are 



evidoncos of deposits from glacial drifts 

 and the soil is fairly productive. As com- 

 pared with the other New En.i^Iand 

 states the climate is mild. The rainfall 

 is sufliciont for the growing of all kinds 

 of farm crops, ranging from 40 inches in 

 the northwest to 50 inches per annum 

 near the coast. 



Rhode Island, partly on account of its 

 size, is not an important commercial 

 fruit-producing section. The total num- 

 ber of apple trees reported in the census 

 of 1910 was 152,009; total number of 

 peaches, 39,342; pears, 16,907; plums and 

 prunes, 4,836; cherries, 964; grapes, 

 7,662 vines; small fruits, 281 acres. 



Granville Lowtiier 



rrodiictioii ol' Fruits in Rhode Island 



Orchard fruits, grapes, nuts and tropi- 

 cal fruits: 1909 and 1899. The follow- 

 ing table presents data with regard to 

 orchard fruits, grapes, nuts and tropical 

 fruits. The acreage devoted to these 

 products was not ascertained. In com- 

 paring one year with the other the num- 

 ber of trees or vines of bearing age is on 

 the whole a better index of the general 

 changes or tendencies than the quantity 

 of product, but the data for the censuses 

 of 1910 and 1900 are not closely com- 

 parable, and the product is therefore 

 compared, although variations may be 

 due largely to temporarily favorable or 

 unfavorable climatic conditions. 



> Expressed in bushels for orchard fruits, and pounds for grapes, nuts and tropical fruits. 



* Included with "unclassifiwl." 



* Conj)ist£ of products not separately named by the enumerator, but Rrouped under the designation "all other." 



* Includes Entjlish or Persian walnut*, pecana, black walnuts, butternuta chcstnuta and hickory nuts. 



