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Olivet promises well but requires furtlier trial here. 



Phillippe (Louis), is every way highly satisfactory, save that it sadly laclis the 

 essential quality of productiveness. 



Richmond (the Kentish of Downing) is universally known as a leading marliet, 

 culinary cherry, although Montmorency is to some extent superseding it. 



Rocliy Mountain (Dwarf) has recently been widely and apparently extravagantly 

 lauded. Those tested here are very dwarf and have borne while very young, but 

 the fruit is utterly worthless. 



Royal Dulve is an old variety, which seems never to have attracted much atten- 

 tion. Experience here so far would seem to justify this. 



Windsor, a recent, late, sweet cherry, originating near Windsor, opposite Detroit, 

 has fruited here twice, though but lightly. It promises well as a hardy variety. 



Wood (Governor) is valued as a marliet sweet cherry for localities adapted to 

 this species. 



Wragg, originated in Iowa, is popular as an acid cherry, where superior hardi- 

 ness is requisite. Here it proves to be a slow grower and quite late, though an 

 early and productive variety. 



Spanish (Yellow) (Bigarreau of Downing) is a type of the class of firm-fleshed, 

 sweet cherries. It is not even yet excelled in high quality. But for its unfortunate 

 tendency to craclc and decay in case of warm, moist weather during the ripening 

 season, it would doubtless even yet hold a leading position in its class. 



MULBERRIES {Morus). 



The varieties of mulberry which ripen their fruits in succession, during several 

 weelis, and hence are said to be everbearing, are the only ones grown here for trial. 



Of these Downing is very vigorous, though scarcely hardy, even at the lake shore. 



New American is hardy, vigorous, and productive. 



Hicks is a southern variety, evidently out of its proper latitude here. 



Russian is a spreading, drooping variety, valuable, if at all, on account of its 

 hardiness, for screens or windbreaks. Its fruit, though abundant, is of no value. 



Teas Weeping, when grafted upon upright stocks of suitable height, makes one of 

 the finest of weeping trees. 



PEACHES {Prunus Persica, Amygdalus Persica or Persica vulgaris, of various 



botanists). 



A large number of varieties of peach have fruited here this season, many of them 

 for the first time. Of these an unexpectedly large number have proved spurious, 

 indicating an inexcusable amount of error, carelessness, or worse. So far the pro- 

 portion of eri'or proves to be far greater among peaches than with other classes of 

 fruits. This is stated the more confidently with the hope to induce increased care- 

 fulness. The practice here is to keep an accurate record of the source from which 

 each tree is received. A careful description is also made of both fruit and tree of 

 each variety wlien at maturity. 



April 1 to (], peaches in common with all other tree fruits were sprayed with a 

 solution of two pounds of copper sulphate in fifty gallons of water. 



May 15, peaches were sprayed to prevent leaf -curl, using a solution of one pound 

 of copper sulphate in 500 gallons of water. 



Early in May the peach trees were "wormed" to eradicate the larvae of the 

 borer, which had escaped the scrutiny of the previous autumn, and the process 

 was repeated in the following September to dispose of the current season's colony. 



May 29, commenced jarring trees for curculio, but so far as peaches were con- 

 cerned it was mainly confined to the early, smooth-skinned varieties. Even this 

 was soon found to be unnecessary, the attacks of the insect being mainly confined 

 to the adjacent plums. 



A few rose chafers were also caught upon peaches, when jarring for curculios, 

 though their depredations were mainly confined to the plum. 



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