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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Of insects the green aphis, Aphis mali, appeared in increased numbers 

 this season and, owing to the circumstance that resort must be had to 

 acrid or corrosive substances as effective remedies, and that their strength 

 must be such as to prove fatal to the aphides, and yet not injurious to the 

 foliage, it proved difficult, if not impracticable, to so graduate their 

 strength as to fully exterminate the pests by a single application. By 

 repeating applications, however, the enemy was kept well in subjection, 

 and finally disappeared altogether. 



A young tree or two of the Russian varieties, received from Prof. J. L. 

 Budd of Ames, Iowa, were attacked slightly by blight of the young twigs, 

 due doubtless to bacteria. These were at once cut away and burned. 

 Aside from this, the apple has been free from attacks of fungus in any 

 form; and with the generally cool season, the growth has been moderate 

 and healthy. 



No varieties (save the one already mentioned) having yet come into 

 bearing, tabulation seems unnecessary, and is omitted. 



The following list of varieties is selected for a family orchard, to supply 

 dessert, culinary, and sweet varieties in succession, from early August till 

 the opening of the small-fruit season, naming them, as nearly as practica- 

 ble, in the order of maturing. 



Early Harvest. 

 Sweet Bough. 

 Jeffries. 



Munson Sweet. 

 Shiawassee. 

 Northern Spy. 



Early Strawberry. 

 Garden Royal. 

 Keswick. 

 Dyer. 



Hubbardston. 

 Lady Sweet. 



Primate. 

 Jersey Sweet. 

 Rhode Island Green- 

 ing. 

 Golden Russet. 



Chenango. 

 St. Lawrence. 

 Jonathan. 

 Talman Sweet. 

 Roxbury Russet. 



The following market varieties will afford a succession, for a local 

 market, for a similar period. 



Early Harvest. 



Lowell. 



Rhode Island Greening. 



Roxbury Russet. 



Descriptions are not deemed necessary, since nearly all are old, well- 

 known varieties; while their arrangement in the order of ripening will, at 

 least approximately, indicate the season of each. 



Red Astrachan. 



Shiawassee. 



Baldwin. 



Maiden Blush. 



Hubbardston. 



Red Canada (top graft). 



QUINCES— Cydonia. 

 Of these the varieties and dates of planting are as follows: 



Champion (not on station), for several seasons failed to fully ripen its 



