16 BULLETIN 485, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES 



NEW YORK. 



Distribution. — Reference to the diagram in figure 2 and the map 

 (fig. 8) will emphasize the relative importance of New York as com- 

 pared with other States in the quantity of apples produced. They 

 are grown widely throughout most parts of the State, but the areas 

 which are of great commercial importance are fairly definite, being 

 located in the Hudson River valley and in the western part of the 

 State. The former region consists essentially of the parts of Put- 

 nam, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Columbia, and Green Counties that 

 are within a comparatively short distance of the river. In the 

 western part of the State the counties that border Lake Ontario — 

 Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, Wayne, Cayuga, and the western portion 

 of Oswego — comprise the famous western New York apple district, 

 though in reality this district also includes parts of Genesee and 

 Livingston Counties (which are in the second tier of counties from 

 Lake Ontario) and a large number of important orchards located 

 about the " finger lakes " in central- western New York. It is to be 

 observed also by referring to the acreage maps (figs. 9 and 10) that 

 there are interests of some importance in the Lake Champlain section 

 and in the St. Lawrence Valley. The fruit from the last two sections, 

 however, does not enter largely into the trade. 



Varieties. — Baldwin, Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Hubbardston, Mc- 

 intosh, Northern Spy, Oldenburg, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury, 

 Tompkins King, Twenty Ounce, Wagener, and Wealthy. 



The Rome Beauty and Boiken were included in a list suggested for 

 Livingston County. The Yellow Newtown is grown successfully in 

 restricted localities in the Hudson River valley. It is of interest to 

 note that the Ben Davis, though comprising 5 per cent of the crop of 

 the State (Table III), was not named by any of the correspondents 

 reporting in this connection. 



NEW JERSEY. 



Distribution. — Conditions are well suited to the growing of apples 

 in most sections of New Jersey, especially in the central and north- 

 ern parts. The chief commercial activities, except as they may be 

 represented by individual orchards in other parts of the State, are 

 located in Burlington, Monmouth, Camden, and Gloucester Coun- 

 ties, in which Riverton, Moorestown, Marlton, Middletown, Red- 

 Bank, Merchantville, and Glassboro represent important points of 

 production. 



Varieties. — A larger number of varieties have an important com- 

 mercial status in New Jersey than in many States, because of the 



