Germantown has grown apples on these river slopes since the Palatines first cleared them, and in autumn the town smells faintly of fruit and cut grass at the same time. Hegarty Land Services keeps the lawns in among all that — mowing, edging, trimming, and the cleanups that take a property down to its bones before the cold sets. Between the orchard rows and the roadside yards, this is country that rewards a straight line and a clean finish. There is genuine quiet in a lawn cut late on an October afternoon, with the Catskills going blue across the water. Serving Germantown, Linlithgo, Cheviot, Clermont and the nearby Columbia County towns.