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heating glass houses, lettuce growing under glass, celery under glass, 

 cress, forcing egg-plants, winter peas, bees in greenhouses, methods 

 of controlling greenhouse pests, treatment of carnation rust) ; 

 Revised Opinions of Japanese Plums. Several other lines of 

 experiment, touching the horticultural interests of our territory and 

 which had already been carried to a certain point by our own funds, 

 are now going forward at the home station, and the results may be 

 expected in bulletin form, as thej mature. 



Certain wholly new investigations have also been undertaken at 

 the home station for the benefit of western New York, most of 

 which, however, are not yet ready for publication. Certain of these 

 studies have been prosecuted in part upon the farms in western 

 New York, particularly those relating to insects. The bulletins of 

 this type which have already been published are as follows: 

 A Plum Scale in Western New York ; The Chmbing Cutworms in 

 Western New York ; The Cigar- Case- Bearer in Western New York ; 

 The Dwarf Lima Beans ; Recent Chrysanthemums ; The China 

 Asters, with remarks upon Flower Beds ; The Spraying of Trees, 

 with remarks upon the Canker- Worm ; Soil Depletion in Respect 

 to the Care of Fruit Trees. A half dozen other investigations of 

 this type are already completed and awaiting publication. 



Another type of research work which we have undertaken under 

 the auspices of this bill is the investigation of the conditions of cer- 

 tain horticultural interests in western New York. In the interest 

 of these particular inquiries, we have traveled no less than 25,000 

 miles in western New York and have visited and examined many 

 hundreds, if not thousands, of plantations. We have attempted in 

 these investigations to learn the actual state of the industries and to 

 suggest means for their improvement. They are really the begin- 

 ning of a horticultural survey which can be much extended with 

 great profit. Some of these inquiries have already matured, and 

 the results are published in the following bulletins : Hints on the 

 Planting of Orchards; The Peach Industry in Western New York; 

 Peach Yellows ; Some Grape Troubles in Western New York (with 

 a particular account of the "rattling" of grapes in Chautauqua 

 county) ; Varieties and Leaf-Blight of the Strawberry ; The Quince 

 in Western New York ; The Recent Apple Failures of Western 

 New York ; Cherries ; Blackberries ; Evaporated Raspberries in 



