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the earlier name, is entitled to precedence. It has now yielded two suc- 

 cessive crops of excellent, very early fruit, of fine quality. It is apparently 

 worthy of extensive planting as a home or family grape. 



Woodruff has disappointed us this year. It has made a very vigorous 

 growth; but the fruit has been very sparse, the bunches small, and the 

 flavor indifPerent. 



Worden is too well and favorably known to require extended notice. It 

 may safely be planted, even for market, instead of Concord. At the north 

 this should always be done. 



Wyoming is a good grower and productive: but of only moderate 

 quality. 



For a family vineyard, with succession, the following will afford both 

 variety and high quality. If not so many are wanted, a selection can be 

 made. Varieties are named nearly in the order of ripening: 



Early Victor, Winchell. Worden, Lady, Delaware, Diamond, Brighton, 

 Ulster, Jefferson. 



For a market vineyard with succession : 



Moore Early, Worden, Concord, Niagara, and at the south or in favorable 

 localities, Isabella or Catawba. 



PEARS — PyruH communis. 



To the sixty-seven varieties of pear in orchard at the date of my last 

 report, fourteen were added last spring, making a total of eighty-one vari- 

 eties now growing on the premises. Of these six have shown bloom this 

 season, viz.: Sterling, which bloomed May 19, and tlire fruit matured about 

 September 5 to 10; Winter Nelis bloomed May 18, matured in November; 

 Bloodgood, bloomed May 19; Gray Doyenne, May 16; Ansault, May 19, 

 and Mount Vernon, May 16. The last four failed to set fruit. 



The unusually unfavorable weather of last spring, which so severely 

 injured the foliage of most classes of fruits, had little apparent effect upon 

 the foliage of the pear, which in most cases continued as healthy as in 

 previous years. The trees were twice sprayed with Bordeaux mixture,, 

 during the season; as were also the cherries and apples in adjacent rows. 

 There is no means of determining how far, if at all, their more healthy 

 condition may be attributed to sueh application. 



The blight which last season attacked three or four trees, ruining three 

 of them and badly disfiguring a fourth one, has not reappeared this 

 season. 



Two or three trees of Seedless (Bessemianka) and Gakovsk, Russian 

 varieties, received from Prof. J. L. Budd of Iowa, are this season seriously 

 affected with canker of the bark of their trunks and older branches. So 

 far it has not been observed upon other varieties. This disease is not 

 supposed to be contagious. It has, for years, been observed to attack 

 varieties of feeble habit, generally foreign, and evidently not at home in 

 our climate. We know of no remedy short of cutting away the diseased 

 wood. 



The slug {Eriocamjxi cerasi) has been the only troublesome insect this 

 year. Its attacks have continued later than usual this season; but have 

 yielded readily to spraying with poisons. 



So few varieties have bloomed and fruited this season that tabulation is 

 omitted to await fruiting and identification. 



