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Boussock, Doyenne d'Eto, Flemish Beauty, Grey Doyenne, Ilowell, Louise 

 Bonne of Jersey, Lawrence, Louise Bonne, Madeleine, Napoleon, Onondaga, 

 Osband's Hummer, Kosticzer, Seckel, Sheldon, Tyson, IJrbaniste, Winter 

 Nelis, AVhite Doyenni'. There are also some young seedlings. 



There are also the following plum trees : Lombard, Jefferson, ^yashington, 

 Wild Goose, Smith's Orleans, and some seedlings. 



The following cherries are represented : American Heart, Belle de Choisy, 

 'Governor Wood, Carnation, Kentish Ked, English Morello, May Duke, lieiue 

 Hortense, Yellow Spanish. There are also a large number of seedlings. 



PEACHES. 



We have a few trees in square boxes which we set in a cellar during winter. 

 In summer the boxes are set in the ground. There are also a few trees which 

 .are trimmed low, and partially covered with rails, litter, etc., during winter. 

 We shall set a few others in the most favored spots. 



For other experiments on protecting peach trees by corn fodder, etc., see 

 the reports of previous years. 



THE VINEYARDS. 



The vineyard on the terrace by the green house has been filled this spring by 

 adding forty-one varieties of Haskell's new seedlings. The spring frost killed 

 back all the vines and prevented their fruiting except in a few cases. The vines 

 are all doing well. These are trained to one slanting stem which slopes very 

 gradually to the east. They are trimmed in autumn and then buried with a 

 few inches of earth, which remains undisturbed till early in May. On the hill 

 northeast of the President's house has been planted a vineyard of 300 vines 

 twelve by twelve feet. Thirty of these are Hartford Prolihc, seventy Agawam, 

 .and two hundred Concord, lietween these have been set 300 College seedlings. 

 Besides the seedling's and the new sorts from Haskell we now have the follow- 



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ing thirty-six named varieties, viz., Arnold, Alvey, Agawam, Barry, Brant, 

 Brighton, Blackhawk, Clinton, Concord, Cottage, Creveling, Delaware, Dela- 

 ware Seedling, Ives' Seedling, Isabella, lona, Hartford Prolific, Martha, Lady, 

 Norton's Virgina, Owosso, Perkins, Senasqua, Rogers 3, Merrimack, Rogers 5, 

 Rogers 1, Rogers 44, Rogers U, Rogers 39, Taylor s bullet, Talman, Telegraph, 

 Wilder, Worden, Walter. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



The raspberries and blackberries have been removed to the new garden north 

 •of the farm house. They have made a good growth. The currants and goose- 

 berries have done well, excepting some damage done by the frost We are pre- 

 paring to set an acre or more in the new garden. The strawberries were only 

 about half a crop on account of the severe late frost. We have set our plants 

 for raising plants and for testing varieties as follows : They are set in blocks 

 three by three feet and each block six feet from contiguous blocks. 



We have the following named varieties : America, Agriculturist, Af rique, 

 Belle, Black defiance, Cummings' Seedling, Carolina, Champion, Charles 

 Downing, Colonel Cheeny, Captain Jack, Cumberland Triomphe, Duncan, 

 Downer's Emperor, Essex Beauty, Excelsior, Forest Rose, Glendale, Great 

 American, General Sherman, Great Prolific, Green Prolific, Grace, Hervey 

 Davis, Jucunda, Kentucky, Metcalf, Monarch of the West, Matilda, President 

 Lincoln, Pioneer, Rappahannock, Russel's Advance, Russell, Starr, Seneca 



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