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Mednyansky. — Origin Hungary. Tree a moderately vigorous spreading grower, 

 with large drooping leaves. The fruit is medium to large, black, of good quality. 

 Ripe July 4. 



Napoleon. — Very large, handsomely colored, of good quality. The tree is a good 

 grower and a regular bearer. Valuable both for home use and market. 



Plymouth Rock. — Size medium : color light yellow, shaded with red ; quality good. 

 Follows Gov. \\'ood closely in time of ripening. A new variety requiring further 

 trial. 



Purity. — A seedling of the Elton raised in California. Fruit amber, delicately shaded 

 with red. Too delicate in texture for market purposes. 



Schmidt. — A very large, late, dark colored cherry introduced from Germany. A very 

 shy bearer here. 



Yellow Spanish. — Well known. One of the best of the sweet cherries. Fruit large, 

 heart shaped; color whitish yellow, shaded with red; quality very good. 



Tartarian. — Large, black, of best quality. Tree a fairly vigorous grower and an 

 abundant bearer. One of the most profitable market varieties. 



Windsor. — Tree vigorous and good cropper. Fruit large, heart-shaped : color dark 

 red; quality very good. Introduced from Canada a few years since and is now recog- 

 nized as a very valuable cherry for market. 



Wood. — One of the best early varieties. Fruit medium in size; color yellow, shaded 

 with red; texture tender; quality very good. Valuable for home planting. 



PEACHES. 



The past season has been very favorable for the peach, except for the occurrence 

 of heavy and long continued rains in midsummer, which caused the early varieties 

 to rot badly. The number of bearing trees on the station grounds was considerably 

 reduce<l last spring by the removal of quite a large number of varieties which had 

 been sufliciently tested or which were too badly winter-killed to Be longer useful. In 

 all one lumdred and fifteen varieties fruited during the season. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



Connett (Southern Early), Crothers, Longhurst, Oceana and Triumph are among 

 the most promising new varieties fruited this season. Connett is a white peach of the 

 Elberta type, ripening with Lewis. It is a larger, finer looking peach than Lewis, and 

 is quite free from rot. Crothers is an attractive white peach, ripening the last of 

 September. Longhurst is of the Chili type. It is somewhat superior to Chili as 

 grown here. Oceana is a large yellow peach ripening about the middle of September. 

 Triumph is one of the first yellow peaches to ripen. It has been widely planted and 

 is now quite well known. 



Sneo<l and Greensboro seem to have few characteristics likely to commend them to 

 fruit growers of this State. Both are white peaches. Sneed was the first variety to 

 ripen on the grounds this season. Greensboro came in with Triumph. 



There seems to be a growing tendency in the Michigan ])each belt at the present 

 time toward the planting of yellow peaches to the exclusion largely of the white 

 kinds. This precludes, to a great extent, the possibility of any of the newer white 

 varieties becoming widely popular unless coming at a season when there are no good 

 yellow varieties ripening. The open city market gets the bulk of the white fruit now- 

 grown. Buyers much j)refer yellow fruit and special orders sent direct from con- 

 sumer or dealer to the orchardist usually call for yellow peaches. This preference 

 for yellow varieties doubtless comes about largely through the fact that, as a rule, 

 yellow peaches handle better than white ones, arriving at their destination freer 

 from di-iooloration and in better condition generally. No doubt the advent of the 

 mechanical grader, which subjects the fruit to more severe handling than grading by 

 hand, will further enhance this preference for yellow varieties. 



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