POMOLOGY 



Bt GEORGE T. POWELL, Ghent, Shperintendbnt. 



In the work of preparation for the various State exhibits the depart- 

 ment of horticulture was one of the last to be reached. Consequently, 

 before the process of collection was begun, a large quantity of our best 

 fruits for the season of 1892 had already been shipped to home and 

 foreign markets. 



Apples and Peaks. 



This was notably the case with apples and pears, but a considerable 

 range of varieties was secured, packed and forwarded to cold storage in 

 Chicago. Of the late varieties of pears a collection was made and 

 placed in cold storage in Kochester. 



On the iirst day of May, at the opening of the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, these fruits were brought out of cold storage and there 

 were placed on exhibition 110 varieties of apples and five varieties of 

 pears. The apples opened in excellent condition, even many of those 

 which are considered fall varieties and are not usually held in cold 

 storage. Owing to the unusually cold winter frost penetrated some of 

 the cold storage rooms at Eoeh ester, the temperature settling several 

 degrees below the freezing point, thereby injuring several varieties of 

 pears. On the eleventh day of May, when the judges examined this 

 fruit, there were placed before them 101 varieties of apples, as follows : 



Newton Pippin ; Fallawater ; Hubbards- 

 tou's Nousucli; Lady; Roan's Wliite 

 Crab ; Cherry Crab ; Spice ; Granite 

 Beauty; Blaclt ; Pall'Seek-no-Purther ; 

 Waxen ; Red Canada ; Boiken ; Red 

 Strealt ; Jennetting ; Tallman Sweet ; 

 Pennock; Sweet Beek-no-Further; Acubi- 

 f olia Crab ; Grosfarros ; Goldflesh Crab ; 

 Pomme Gris ; Rambo ; Stone ; Flushing 

 Spitzenberg ; Salome ; Block Apple ; 

 Moore's Greening ; Ragan's Red ; Blue 

 Pearraain ; Sweet Winter Greening ; 

 Wagener; Yellow Belle-Fleur; Rock ; 

 Mcintosh Red ; Pickmau Pippin ; Ver- 

 mont Greening ; Ben Davis ; Oxnead 

 Pearmain ; Egg Top ; Pumpkin Russet ; 

 English Russet ; Golden Streak ; Northern 

 Spy; Stark; Bottle Greening; Jonathan; 

 Vandevere; Baldwin; Broad End; Burr's 

 Winter Sweet; Tuft's Baldwin; Hollow 



Crown ; Smith's Cider ; Fall Pippin ; 

 Pewaukee ; Bethlehemite ; Lyon's Sweet ; 

 Gilpin ; Esopus Spitzenberg ; Peck's 

 Pleasant ; Rum ; Cranberry:; Hgg Island 

 Sweet ; Gilliflower ; Campfield ; Honey 

 Sweet ; Zane's Greening ; R. I. Greening . 

 Egyptian Russet ; Leather Coat Russet ; 

 Ortley; Cabashea; Bush's Beauty; Gloria 

 Mundi ; Goldflesh Strawberry ; Newark 

 King ; King of Tompkins Co. ; Swaar ; 

 Thomas ; Randall's Red. Winter ; Foster ; 

 White Belle-Fleur; Hendricks' Sweet ; 

 Sweet Pearmain ; Lyscom ; Cooper's Mar- 

 ket ; Scott's Winter ; White Winter Pear- 

 main ; Winter Strawberry ; Twenty 

 Ounce ; Canada Pippin ; Pound Sweet ; 

 Norton's Red ; Romanite ; Seek-no-Fur- 

 ther; Golden Russet; Belle et Bonne; Rox- 

 bury Russet ; Red Romanite ; Dyer. 



There were also shown five varieties of pears as follows : 

 Columbia; Josephine do Malines; Winter Nelis; Pound; Beurre Gris. 



There were shown one plate of Orange quinces which had been kept 

 during these months in cold storage and were in fairly good condition. 



This fruit was kept on exhibition continuously and about every live 

 days all specimens showing defects by loss of color and decay"^ were 



