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Windsor. — This variety was introduced from Canada a few years since and is now 

 recognized as a very valuable cherry for market. The tree is upright, spreading, 

 vigorous and a good bearer. Fruit large, heart-shaped; color dark red; quality very 

 good. 



PEACHES. 



The peach made a better showing upon the Station grounds this season than almost 

 any other kind of fruit on trial. Quite a large proportion of the varieties of bearing 

 age bore full crops, and the fruit was very free from rot. This fall after the fruit had 

 ripened a block of trees containing quite a number of the older, well-tested varieties 

 was removed to make room for the subsequent planting of new kinds. The demand for 

 space in the orchard is greater in the case of the peach than almost any other kind of 

 fruit, because of the large number of new varieties introduced annually. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



Connett, Ford New, Longhurst, Oceana, Triumph and YVaddell are new varieties which 

 bore well this season. Connett is an attractive white peach, ripening in late August 

 or in the season of Lewis. It is a larger, finer looking peach than Lewis, and while 

 not so hardy as the later, it bears fully as well under ordinary conditions and is much 

 more free from rot. Ford New and Oceana are large, yellow peaches, ripening with 

 Engle Mammoth in early September. Both are very fine peaches, but coming as they 

 do with Engle Mammoth, the latter a well-known, reliable variety extensively planted 

 at the present time is to be preferred. Triumph bore fruit of a little smaller size than 

 usual, but otherwise the crop was fully equal to that of last season. It is believed 

 this variety may safely be recommended for planting when an early peach is desired, 

 and especially for home use or local market. Waddell fruited for the first time this 

 season. The tree is a stocky grower and evidently an early bearer, as the fruit pro- 

 cured was borne on two-year old trees. The fruit is creamy white, shaded with red. 

 of good quality. 



Sneed and Greensboro fruited for the second time this season and neither give any 

 more promise of proving valuable than they did last year. Both are white peaches. 

 Sneed ripens a few days earlier than Alexander. It is small and quite tender. Greens- 

 boro ripens with Early Rivers and is apparently no more desirable for market purposes 

 than the latter variety. 



SPRAYING. 



Tests with copper sulphate solution of varying strengths, applied at different times 

 for leaf curl, were again made as in former years. The first application was made 

 November 23. 1900, with a view of testing the value of fall spraying. Commencing 

 early in April trees which were purposely left untreated when the regular spraying 

 was done were sprayed one row at a time, at intervals of a week up to the period of 

 blossoming. The object of this treatment was to learn more definitely how close to 

 the time of blossoming spraying might be done with a certainty of good results. 

 With a view of testing the efficacy of a weaker solution of copper sulphate than is 

 commonly used, one row of trees was sprayed with one pound of copper sulphate to 

 one hundred gallons of water and another with one pound to two hundred gallons. 

 The strength of material used in actual practice was one pound of copper sulphate to 

 twenty gallons of water. In the case of all tests made, trees of the same varieties 

 experimented on were sprayed early with the usual strength of copper sulphate and 

 were used as checks. 



The results of these tests are as follows: 



Trees sprayed in southwest block November 28, 1900, showed a little more curl than 

 trees sprayed in early spring. In the northeast block of trees, there was no difference 

 between fall and spring sprayed trees. 



On trees sprayed April 19, there was no more curl than upon trees sprayed April 12,. 

 at which time the regular spraying was done. 



