EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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or faintly striped with dark brownish red and with numerous light gray 

 dots; flesh greenish white, juicy, acid, crisp, tender, core open, seeds long, 

 pointed; quality 4 to 5; European, 



Roxbury, ripe December to June; size 2 to 3; form oblate conical, slightly 

 irregular; cavity broad, deep; stem three fourths inch, stout; basin broad, 

 moderately deep, slightly plaited; calyx large, partially closed, calyx tube 

 conical; color grayish russet, with a few lighter raised dots; flesh white, 

 coarse, firm, crisp, sharp subacid; quality 2 to 3; culinary and late market- 

 ing; a vigorous, very spreading tree. 



Titovka, ripe September, October; size 1; form roundish, flattened at 

 ends, somewhat angular; cavity deep, irregular russeted; stem one half 

 to three fourths inch, stout; basin rather deep, irregular, slightly plaited, 

 abrupt; calyx closed, but not covering the tube, which is funnel-shape; 

 color yellow, mottled, faintly striped and nearly covered with two shades 

 of red, thickly sprinkled with conspicuous yellowish dots; flesh yellowish 

 white, tender, crisp, breaking, rather coarse; core small compact, seeds large 

 ovate, one to two in each carpel; quality 3; culinary, and also market, if 

 productive; Russian. 



QUINCES (Cydonia). 



During the past two years the quinces at this station have been exempt 

 from the depredations of fungi and of insects, as well, with the single 

 exception of the slug {Eriocampa cerasi), which yielded readily to a spray 

 of tobacco water applied July 3, and again for a second colony on July 25. 



Quinces have bloomed and fruited during the past year, as follows: 



Champion ripens so late as to be uncertain in our occasionally unfavor- 

 able seasons. The plant is vigorous and very prolific. 



Meech is scarcely the equal of Orange in either beauty or size, though 

 it is claimed to excel it in productiveness — a claim yet to be established 

 here. 



Orange yet holds an assured position as the leading market variety. 



Rea is, so far, slightly larger than Orange, and even more beautifully 

 colored, but is scarcely its equal in productiveness. 



So far as quality is concerned there is but slight occasion for choice 

 between varieties. 



NUTS. 



ALMONDS (Amygdalus communis). 



Luelling, a hard-shelled variety, received from Missouri, and planted in 

 1892, showed bloom last spring, but failed to develop fruit. It is hardy 

 here. 



A soft-shelled almond tree planted in 1893 has also passed the winter 

 here without apparent injury, although it is understood that soft-shelled 



