228 STATE HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



tree has a spreading, almost drooping habit, withstanding the climate here- 

 perfectly. The fruit, which is produced abundantly and in succession, 

 varies in color from purplish black to creamy white. It is utterly worth- 

 less, although obviously relished by the birds. 



Tea's Weeping, planted here in 1889, is a chance seedling, originating in 

 Missouri. It is even more decidedly weeping than the Kilmarnock Wil- 

 low, and the foliage is also more attractive. It should, of course, be 

 grafted upon an upright stock, at standard height. It is obviously a seed- 

 ling of the Russian mulberry 



SERVICE BERRY— Amelanchier. 



This is indigenous in Michigan forests, as a large shrub or small tree 

 from ten to fifteen feet in height,, under the name June Berry or Shad 

 Bush. 



The dwarf varieties only are on trial here. 



The common dwarf variety, grown here since 1876, lacks productiveness, 

 and, as compared with certain varieties of our native huckleberry, which 

 it resembles, it is also deficient in flavor. 



Success, also a dwarf variety, hailing from Pennsylvania, planted here 

 in 1890, is said to be more productive than the foregoing. Not yet fully 

 tested here. 



Yet another dwarf variety, known as Mammoth, was received from 

 Indiana and planted here last spring. 



The last two have not yet shown fruit enough to warrant conclusions 

 respecting their comparative merits. 



PEACHES — Prunus Persica, Amydalus Persica, and Persica Vulgaris (of various 



botanists). 



' Of the peach, there are at present thirty varieties of the planting of 1888; 

 five planted in 1889; sixty-four planted in 1890; and fifty planted in 1891; 

 total, one hundred and forty-nine varieties, comprising two hundred and 

 fifty-five trees in orchard, together with about seventy trees in nursery, 

 intended for planting in the spring of 1892. Most of these last are 

 gratuities, largely from the Pike County nurseries of Missouri. 



Most of the trees planted in 1888 showed more or less bloom the past 

 spring, and many of them set a little fruit, only occasionally one of which 

 came to maturity, owing, quite probably, to the prevalence of leaf curl, 

 Taphrina deformans, which checked the growth, and nearly ruined the 

 earlier foliage. 



No other fungus has been observed to affect the peach, except in the 

 case of a serrate-leaved variety, named Champion, received from Allegan 

 county, as originating there, which became badly affected by a species of 

 mildew to which, in this climate, the serrate-leaved varieties seem especi- 

 ally subject. 



Of insects, the borer {JEgeria exitiosa), had effected a lodgment in a 

 few trees, standing in a light soil, which were "wormed" in September. 



The only other troublesome insect, so far as the peach is concerned, was 

 the curculio; and, owing to the sparseness of the fruits, all effort to save 

 them from the depredations of the "Little Turk" was omitted. 



The dates and character of the bloom of a considerable number of 

 varieties, many of them of the newer varieties, were noted; together with 

 the character of their leaf glands. These would be most effectively given 

 in a tabulated list of varieties; but, since none of the newer varieties are 

 yet in fruit, such tabulation, involving as it would a very considerable 





