THE APPLES OF NEW YORK

What's your favorite apple? McIntosh? Empire? Gala? Delicious? Paula Red? Cortland? Or perhaps you're a Granny Smith, Fuji, Honeycrisp or Jonagold person. Whatever your choice, now's the time to satisfy your apple appetite with choices freshly picked and sold at your favorite roadside stand or cider mill.

If your appetite is for reading and viewing illustrations of apples, however, just stop by the Bullis Room and ask one of our volunteers to show you this collection's two-volume The Apples of New York, by S. A. Beach, N. O. Booth, and O. M. Taylor. Both volumes were published in Albany in 1905 as part of a series of reports by the New York Agriculture Experiment Station. Between the covers are many pages of information about and illustrations of apples.

Who said you couldn't have your apples and eat them too?

(This collection also has volumes in this series on grapes, peaches, pears, and plums and volunteers would be happy to assist you with these, as well.)

STRAWBERRY GEMS OF '93

The back cover of Lovetts Guide to Fruit Culture, Spring, 1894, features these gems of 1893 and reminds us that we will soon be loading our cars with baskets and heading for the nearest berry farm. Some of us make jams, jellies, pies and our favorite Strawberry Shortcake recipes while all of us enjoy eating them fresh off the vine.

Strawberries are the first fruits of summer here in Western New York, followed by raspberries, blueberries, and then apples, peaches and pears. Coffeetable-size books with colorful plates showing these luscious summer fruits are on the shelves here in the Bullis Room. So let's enjoy all of these fruits while they're in season. And come November, we can take these books off the shelf and spend the winter dreaming of next summer's bounty. That way we can have our fruit and eat it too.