Fruit Culture in New York
Fruit culture in New York
- The apples of New York. byAlbany, J.B. Lyon Company, printer, 1905.
This two-part set, published by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, was the first of a series of compilations on New York State agricultural products. These compilations were part of a long-range project to document the first appearance of each variety, the people responsible for its production and the varieties from which it was propagated. Each book presents detailed descriptions and colored plates. Other volumes of the series cover grapes, plums, cherries, peaches, pears, small fruits, and vegetables.
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- The grapes of New York. byAlbany, J.B. Lyon Company, state printers, 1908.
This book was the second of a series produced by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva to document the the agricultural products of the state. Written by the station horticulturist, U.P. Hedrick, this volume and its successors show many improvements over the first volume, The Apples of New York, in writing style, paper quality and beauty of illustration. Over 1500 varieties of grape are described.
This book is also available online at https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5519830&DB=local - Pleasant Valley fruit and wine reporter.Hammondsport, N. Y. v. 1, no. 1-12; Sept. 1870-Dec. 1871, Sept. 1872.
This is an example of a locally-produced specialty newspaper with national ambitions. Similar in style to The Cultivator, this semi-monthly paper combines news of local growers with extracts from other publications and extensive correspondence. - Apple and grape farm management, 1913-33.This is a collection of miscellaneous pamphlets and reports which have been bound together for the convenience of the researcher. Most were prepared by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management at Cornell. They are a source of very local, detailed statistics on fruit farming during the first part of the twentieth century.
- The fruit culturist, adapted to the climate of the northern states; containing directions for raising young trees in the nursery, and for the management of the orchard and fruit garden. byNew York, Mark H. Newman and Co., 1847.
This is the fourth edition of the American Fruit Culturist, written by John J. Thomas, one of several New York Quakers who were benefactors of agriculture. He was born in Aurora, the son of the pioneer nurseryman of Western New York. A nurseryman, pomologist and horticultural writer himself, he eventually became Editor of the New Genesee Farmer and Gardeners' Journal as well as the first President of the Fruit Growers Society of Western New York. This book, which first appeared in 1846, reached its 21st edition by the time of its author's death. U.P. Hedrick in A History of Agriculture in the State of New York says of it in 1933, "Probably more copies of this book were sold than of any other pomological work ever written."