EXPERIMENT STATIOX BULLETIXS 



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VV'inter X^elis. — A crooked, poor grower and should be top worked on some straight- 

 growing variety. The fruit is small, obovate: color yellow, more or less covered 

 with specks and blotches of dark cinnamon russet: quality best; season October to 

 January. One of the best winter varieties. 



Zache. — A Chinese sand pear, roundish oblate in form and of large size. Color 

 orange a\ ith man}' light yellowish dots and specks ; quality poor ; texture coarse, 

 crisp. The tree is a fine strong grower with large, thick, glossy leaves. Keeps all 

 winter. Not valuable. 



QUINCES. 



Variation among quinces is not nearly so great as in other kinds of tree fruits. 

 It is restiicted largely to differences in shape and size of the fruit. The new varieties 

 of tlie Orange type on trial here differ but little from the Orange quince e.Kcept in 

 some instances for size. 



The crop was good this season. Champion, Missouri and Rea were among the more 

 productive varieties. 



TABULATION OF QUINCES, 1900. 



Name. 



Alaska 



Angers 



Bourgeat. . . 

 Champion. . 

 Fuller 



Meeeh 



Missouri 



Rea 



Van Deman 



Ripe. 



Middle of October. 



Middle of October. 



Middle of October. 

 Early October. 

 Early October. 

 Middle of October. 



NOTES ON VARIETIES. 



Alaska — Smaller than Orange, but otherwise not very different from that variety. 



Cham])i()n. — Large, greenish yellow, firm, crisp, of good quality. An early and 

 al)undant bearer. October and November. 



Meech. — Below medium in size, very symmetrical in form, slightly pear-shaped. 

 Vigorous and very ])roductive. 



Missouri. — A very large quince of best qualitj'. Somewhat irregular in form. Mod- 

 erately ])roductive. Octol)er. 



Rea. — Vigorous and prodiK'tive. A seedling of the Orange. It 

 and finer quince than its parent. 



Van Doman. — ^Medium to large. 

 Orange. 



is a little larger 



clear, rich vellow. Seems to differ little from 



PLUMS. 



Tlio plum crop this season was badly damaged by rot. Efforts to control this 

 disease by spraying have proven rather unsatisfactory here. Al tlic time when the 

 rot usually does the most damage the plums are well grown and coated with bloom, 

 which so effectually sheds the spray, that not enough remains on the fruit to act as a 

 preventive, to any extent, against infection from the spores of the disease. Thinning 

 does much good by leaving the fruits fartlier apart with less chance for the disease to 

 spread from one fruit to another. Tiie prompt removal of affected fruit is also a 

 valuable aid in the control of the disease. 



The native plums are, with slight exceptions, much inferior to the European and 

 Japan kinds as grown in this climate, and nearly all except a few of the newer 

 varieties recently introduced have been dropped from the station collection. 



