NEW YORK 



NEW YORK 



tal invested, -$2,176,070.72 

 as against $2,333,066.68. In 

 number of seed-farms, Con- 

 necticut had 85, New York 

 78,Tennessee 35, New Jersey 

 34. The principal seed-crops 

 grown in New York are bush- 

 bean, Brussels sprouts, cab- 

 , sweet corn, cucumber. 



kale, onion. 





regio 



canning- 



[luties. 

 Ontario shore west of Oswego. In 

 f the state, about 10,000 acres are de- 

 tiire. Fig. 1484. 



>\vn with little trouble in the peach 

 urc several commercial plantations. 

 i\vn both for the fresh fruit and for 

 ler chiefly in the Hudson valley and 

 latter chiefly in western New York. The canning 

 cherries are the sour type— chiefly English Morello and 

 Montmorency. The large canning factory industry 

 (some 25 factories in western New York) makes the 

 sour cherry industry profitable. 



Quinces are probably more largely grown than else- 

 where in the Union. 



The small fruit interests are very large, but there are 

 no reliable statistics. In the northern counties of west- 

 ern New York, black raspberries are grown as a farm 



paragus. 



The trucking interests are 

 very large because of the 

 large population and the 

 many means of transporta- 

 tion. The largest single geo- 

 graphical region is Long 

 Island, which, because of its 

 light soil, warm local cli- 

 mate, and accessible loca- 

 tion, is one of the leading 

 market-gardening regions of 

 the New World. Long Island 

 has an area of 1.700 square 

 miles, of which the western 

 third is largely devoted to 

 trucking interests. Parts of 

 the eastern end are also 

 trucking areas, particularly 

 for cabbage and cauliflower. 

 Cabbage seed is extensively 

 grown in this eastern ex- 

 tremity of the island. 



The floricultural interests 

 of New York state are large 

 and growing. Of the 9,000 commercial florists' establish- 



ments that Galloway e: 

 not less than 1,100 or 1, 

 amounting to nearly 4,. 

 city is a market for a 

 early as 1885, John T 

 roses that were sent to 



T'nited States, 



t. New York 



al region. As 



that 4,000,000 



market by 



growers in one year did not constitute half the number 

 sold in that market. The census of 1890 reports the 

 total investment of New York in floricultural business 

 to have been about $9,500,000 (although only 793 estab- 

 lishments are accounted for), as against upwards of 

 5,500,000 in Pennsylvania, the next heaviest state. The 

 lower Hudson region is the center of the violet industry 

 of the United States. Long Island grows quantities of 

 bulbs. 



Because the horticultural interests of New York are 



ess distinct i 



'jipiiical regions, 

 al.' horticultural 



I was probablv 

 an„n in North 

 ' \ and it is long 

 to revive it, or 



'~^~'^', 



York, as against $4,750,1100 in Illinois. 



In seed-farming. New York stood next 

 -to New Jersey, in 1890, in amount of capi- 



li85. A New York appl< 



