EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS 3S9 



Ontario is a seedling by the late Charles Arnold, of Ontario, and is 

 already quite popular in that province. 



Kamsdell Sweet (English Sweet) is among the very best desserfc and 

 culinary sweet apples for late autumn and early winter. 



Red Canada, so long erroneously known throughout Michigan as Steele's 

 Red Winter, is, more recently, losing its former popularity, on account of 

 its feeble habit of growth, as well as increased liability to the attacks of 

 fungi. 



Red Russet, though usually more or less russeted, is much like Baldwin 

 in both tree and fruit, though of superior flavor, and perhaps less produc- 

 tive. 



Rhode Island is the old well known Greening. There are now so many 

 Greenings that the word is no longer distinctive, and is omitted from this 

 in the interest of brevity. 



Roxbury, though an excellent longkeeper, is now rarely planted, doubt- 

 less largely on account of its tendency to shrivel, when kept in a free 

 exposure, as well as on account of the very spreading habit and deficient 

 hardiness of the tree. 



Sheriff comes to us from Nebraska, where it seems to be valued as a 

 hardy longkeeper. It is but partially tested here. 



Stark has more or less reputation in Michigan, as a vigorous, hardy and 

 productive longkeeper of only moderate quality. 



Summer Pearmain and Summer Rose are early autumn and late summer 

 varieties respectively. Each stands unrivaled in its season for great 

 beauty and superior flavot. 



Tolman is one of our most popular baking sweet apples. Recent inves- 

 tigation determines that the correct spelling of the name is as here given. 



Transcendent (a quite too sensational name), is probably the most 

 popular of the crabs among Michigan planters. 



Wagener is valued for early bearing, great productiveness, and high 

 quality. The tree is usually short lived for such reason. 



Washington (Strawberry), though large and beautiful, it is not of high 

 quality. The tree is vigorous and an early bearer. 



Whitney (20) has the small size and the long slender stem of the crab, 

 though it differs radically from them in texture and flavor. The tree 

 shows few, if any, of the crab peculiarities, though possessing much of 

 their hardiness. 



QUINCES.— (Cydonia.) 



Prior to the use of Bordeaux mixture at this substation, as a fungicide, 

 the fruit, and occasionally the young growths of the quince, were occasion- 

 ally attacked by what is usually designated ae " Red rust" (perhaps the 

 Gymnosporangium of the Mycologists), which was treated by cutting 

 away and burning. 



The foliage, alto, was frequently attacked by leaf blight {Entomospo- 

 rium maculatum), a disease common to both this and the pear. 



With the free use of Bordeaux, and more recently of a simple solu- 

 tion of copper sulphate, both have disappeared, and the quince has been 

 wholly free from the attacks of fungi, with the exception of an occasional 

 slight visitation of twig blight, akin to that of the apple and pear, which 

 has only proved serious in the case of a single plant of Champion. 



