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heralding the season when buds may swell and blossoms burst 
forth. 
Table II brings out several. points of interest. It shows, beside 
the main point of average date: (1) How profoundly altitude and 
proximity to large bodies of water influence spring frosts. (2) The 
great range in time of killing frosts in different parts of the State. 
(3) That if blossoming dates are known, the limits of the growth 
of any fruit as to climate, can be told. (4) The average date of 
the advent of spring in the various localities. (5) That spring is two 
months in passing from the southern to the northern boundary, 
and from the valleys to the hill tops of New York.. 
In using the table it must be remembered that the time elapsing 
between the date of killing frosts on the average, and that date in 
any One year, may vary greatly. Thus in the ten-year period we 
are considering, frosts have occurred at Geneva as late as May 11 
(in 1902); and the latest frost has fallen as early as April 9 (in 
1898), giving a range from the average of 12 days in the first 
instance and of 32 days in the second. Allowances must be made, 
too, for local topographical features which are, as we have seen, 
quite as important oftentimes as the more general land features. 
