SOME GOOD FRUITS RECENTLY GROWN.* 



F. H. HALL. 



For improvement in fruits the grower must 



New varieties depend upon new varieties. Old varieties prob- 



necessary in fruit ably do not deteriorate, if properly handled, but 



growing. they do not improve or change except in very 



rare instances. The varieties we have are far 



from perfect and it is the ambition of almost every grower to produce 



something better in some one or more respects than even those 



varieties he prizes most highly. Consequently, each year, there 



appear in the nurserymen's catalogues or in pomological literature 



descriptions of many new kinds of fruit. In many cases, the 



originator, or introducer, sees in the foreground the good qualities 



of the new variety and may praise it overmuch or recommend it for 



more general planting than the truth warrants. 



For the good of the fruit-growing industry, 

 Impartial testing therefore, it is desirable that some unprejudiced 

 necessary. authority should test new fruits, and weigh with 

 judicial hand both their merits and their defects. 

 This is one of the functions of an experiment station, and this Station 

 has, almost from its foundation, collected, grown and compared 

 fruit varieties. Among those tested are several new kinds, which 

 seem worthy of recommendation, as they are better in some quality 

 than somewhat similar varieties, or at least sufficiently different in 

 character, productivity or season to fill a desirable place in the pom- 

 ology of the State. Some old kinds also have proven so good at 

 the Station that it seems worth while to bring them again, and 

 somewhat forcefully, to the attention of fruit-growers. These old 



* Reprint of Popular Edition of Bulletin No. 364 ; see p. 442 for Bulletin. 



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