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three of native plums, About the same list has been sent to 

 all the stations, and either planted or heeled in for spring 

 planting. 



STATION NO. B, A. C. HAMMOND, DIRECTOR. 



The experiments undertaken at this station were more exten- 

 sive than at those heretofore mentioned. Thirty varieties of 

 new apples were grafted in the tops of bearing trees, and twelve 

 varieties of yearling trees planted. 



Two varieties of new pears, seven of plums and five of Russian 

 apricots were also planted. With very few exceptions, these 

 trees have lived and made a good growth. 



Twenty-six varieties of strawberries have been planted, all of 

 which have made an excellent growth, and therefore are in good 

 condition for fruiting next season. 



Eleven kinds of blackberries were also planted, only about 

 half of which lived. They made a fair growth, and will prob- 

 ably show some fruit next season. 



At this station, the question of spraying with insecticides for 

 curculio and codling moth, and fungicides for apple scab, plum 

 and grape rot, was given attention. 



For the curculio experiment, four plum trees, about twelve years 

 old, which stood near together, were selected, which will be 

 designated as numbers one, two, three and four. Number one 

 was sprayed on the third of May with twelve pounds of salt and 

 four ounces of London Purple, to forty gallons of water; May 

 10th, with a solution of one pound Sulphate of Copper, one and 

 one-half pints of Ammonia and four ounces of London Purple ; 

 May 25th and June 11th, sprayed with the same solution as May 

 10th. A careful count on the twenty-fifth of August, showed 

 fourteen per cent, of the plums stung. 



On the third of May, the second tree was sprayed with a 

 solution of four ounces of crude Corbolic acid and four ounces 

 London Purple, to forty gallons of water; on May 10th, 25th 

 and June 11th, it was sprayed with the same solution as number 

 one. On the twenty-eighth of August, eleven per cent, showed 

 the mark of the little Turk. 



Number three was sprayed the same date as numbers one and 

 two. The first three times with the London Purple mixture 

 (four ounces to forty gallons of water), the fourth; a combina- 

 tion mixture (Sulphate of Copper, Ammonia and London 

 Purple). This tree, August 25th, showed seventeen per cent, 

 of stung specimens. 



Number four was left unsprayed as a check tree. On the day 

 that the count was made on the other trees, nearly all the fruit 

 was on the ground, and not a single plum could be found 

 unstung. The result of the experiments were practically the 

 same, as all were the means of saving enough fruit to make a 



