go THE PEARS OF NEW YORK 
BLOoMING SEASON AND SEASON OF RIPENING OF PEAR-VARIETIES — Concluded 
Blooming season Ripening season 
Very | marl y Mid- | pate Very | Very Early Mid- | rate | Very 
early season late | early season late 
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Russet Bartlett..............06 
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Souvenir de Congrés........... - * 
Souvenir d’Espéren............ * * 
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Vermont Beauty.............. * 
White Doyenné............... * * 
Wilder Early...............00. * * 
Winter Bartlett............... * * 
Winter Nelis.................. * * 
Worden Seckel.............--. * * 
The latitude of the Smith Astronomical Observatory, a quarter of a 
mile from the Station orchards, is 42° 52’ 46.2”; the altitude of the orchards 
is from five hundred to five hundred and twenty-five feet above the sea 
level. The soil is a loamy but rather cold clay; the orchards lie about a 
mile west of Seneca Lake, a body of water forty miles in length and from 
one to three and one-half miles in width and more than six hundred feet 
deep. The lake has frozen over but a few times since the region was 
settled, over a hundred years ago, and has a very beneficial influence on 
the adjacent country in lessening the cold of winter and the heat of summer 
and in preventing early blooming. 
