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PiCKixG Adams Couxty York I^.iperial. 

 (Nothing but Fancy Fruit in Sight. j 



EDUCATIXG AX ORCHARD. 



Clark Allis,, President Xez^- York State Fruit Growers' Assoeia- 

 tion, Medina, X. Y.-,. 



I\Ir. President. Fruits Growers of Adams County : I had sup- 

 posed that the Garden of Eden was in Orleans County but it seems 

 that this must be the site because this is Adam's County. In our 

 county the chief commercial apple is the Baldwin. Baldwins and 

 Greenings are in the lead, and will continue to lead for a long time. 



Like a child, the education of an orchard should begin before it 

 is born. AMien possible, buy trees of a firm who gets its buds or 

 scions from bearing trees that bear good apples, for there is a great 

 difference in apples. AA'e have in one orchard what is known as 

 "Gray Baldwins" and under no conditions are they as good as our 

 red Baldwins. Two years ago. in cutting over S500.00 worth of 

 scions for one of your sotithern nursery firms, we did not cut any 

 from the Gray Baldwins. I want a tree to be thrifty, large and 



