366 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Houghton and Pale Red are among the oldest of the native cultivated 

 varieties, and, so far, are scarcely excelled in either productiveness or 

 quality. Small size is their chief fault. 



Strubler and Tree are obviously pure natives. The plants are vigorous 

 and healthy, and the fruit, especially of the former, is of high quality* 

 They are of rather small size, and, so far, only moderately productive. 



CHERRIES— Prunns. 



At the date of bloomirjg there was promise of a bountiful crop of this 

 fruit, but, subsequently, the season proved so specially unfavorable that a 

 very large percentage of the bloom proved abortive. 



Putnam scale having been discovered on a few trees, they were 

 sprayed March 31st with kerosene emulsion, consisting of five gallons of 

 kerosene and six pounds of whale oil soap, in forty gallons of water. 



Prior to April 15th, growth remaining dormant, the remainder of the 

 cherries were sprayed with a solution of copper sulphate, consisting of 

 one pound of the sulphate in twenty-five gallons of water. 



On July 2d and again on the 6th sprayed several cherry trees on which 

 the slug, Eriocampa cerasi, had appeared, with kerosene emulsion on the 

 former, and tobacco decoction on the latter date. Both proved effective. 



Aphides have proved unusually persistent this season. They appeared 

 on the foliage of a few cherry trees late in September, and were subdued 

 by the use of tobacco water. 



In the foregoing tabulation, as well as throughout this report, the 

 numerical estimates upon the scale 1 to 10 are arrived at by comparing 

 varieties of the same species only; as, for instance, comparing morellos 

 with morellos, dukes with dukes, and sweet cherries with sweet cherries, 

 ten being the maximum. 



These deductions, being based upon the crop of the past unusually 

 unfavorable season, can scarcely be accepted as a trustworthy indication 

 of the comparative value of varieties during other seasons. 



