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side. Dots white, numerous, minute. Cavity wide, deep with stem 

 medium to long. Basin wide, shallow, corrugated. Flesh white, juicy, 

 brisk subacid, good. Fruit has characteristic habit of beginning to de- 

 cay at core. Season December. Blossomed June G. Chnrlamoff. of 

 Russian origin. Tree vigorous, spreading, bark when young a bright 

 orange color and tree having a yellowish-green aspect. Fruit medium 

 to large, oblong conical or roundish truncated. Skin greenish-yellow 

 with red stripes and splashes. Dots white, minute. Cavity medium 

 deep, slighth^ russeted with stem medium and slender. Basin wide, 

 wrinkled. Flesh greenish white, tender, vinous acid, very good. Season 

 October. Blossomed June 10. Whitnri/ (Whitney Xo. 20) a Hybrid. 

 Origin, Illinois. Tree stout, spreading. Fruit large to very large for a 

 hybrid, roundish to oblate conic. Surface smooth, yellow with red stripes 

 and splashes on sunny side. Flesh pale straw color, tender crisp, very 

 juicy, mild subacid, without astringency and very good. Season Septem- 

 ber. Blossomed June 7. Yellow Arcadian. Trees planted in 1902. 

 ^Vas found to be identical with Hibernal which was planted in 1901 and 

 came into bearing in 1901. 



The varieties of plums and grapes did not ripen the fruit any better 

 than during the preceding season. 



King Karl and Triumph, two varieties of dwarf pears blossomed July 

 10 and July 12, respectively. The trees are quite hardy, but the late 

 blossoming and the fact that the fruit at the close of the season was 

 scarcely two-thirds full grown is ample evidence that the season is too 

 short for these varieties. Flemish Beauty, a standard pear, blossomed 

 June 7, but set no fruit, owing to an attack of scab which atfects this 

 variety much more severely than any other. As anticipated during the 

 preceding season, the rest of the cherry trees were either dead at the 

 beginning of the season or died soon thereafter. As with trees which 

 previously died, the trouble in each instance was due to a dead portion 

 of the stem extending not over two inches above and two inches below 

 the ])oint where the tree had been originally grafted, the entire tree 

 above and the root system below being in a healthy condition. In each 

 instance there was a sharj) upward taper from the union, an extreme 

 case being that of one of the largest trees which immediately above 

 ground and 4 inches above the union measured 91/2 inches in circum- 

 ference, while 6 inches below the surface or 2 inches below the union, 

 the circumference measured 14% inches. Experts to whom diseased 

 trees were sent, expressed different opinions, and the true cause there- 

 fore remains unexplained. The sharp taper would indicate that a rem- 

 edy might be found h\ grafting upon slower growing stock and the Pin 

 Cherry (Prunus I'ennsylvanica, Linn.) would suggest itself as adapted 

 for this purpose. As against this stands the fact that the Pin Cherry 

 is seldom if ever found in the neighborhood of the station or upon any 

 of the other limestone soils of the southern slope of the Upper Peninsula, 

 while it is found in great abundance on the sandy soils of the Potsdam 

 formation on the northern slope. Likewise the varieties of Prunus 

 Cerasus which have died here after a healthy growth and bearing one to 

 three crops, are long lived wherever planted on the northern slope, 

 thrifty trees 20 years or more old being found in Marcjuette, Baraga 

 and other counties. Evidently trees as well as other plants have their 

 likes and dislikes, for to cite two other examples: the black cherry 



