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THE WORK AT THE SUB-STATIONS. 



Review of Special Bulletins 27 and 30, Reports of South Haven Sub-station 

 for 1903 and 1904, by L. R. Taft. 



Review of Special Bulletins 28 and 31, Reports of the Upper Peninsula Sub- 

 station for 1903 and 1904, by C. D. Smith. 



SPECIAL BULLETINS 27 AND 30. 

 Reports of South Haven Sub-station for 1903 and 190Jf. 



[Bulletin 226.] 



BY L. R. TAFT. 



The report of the South Haven Sub-station for 1903 was issued in April, 

 1904, as Special Bulletin No. 27. It is devoted largely to notes upon new varieties 

 of orchard and bush fruits which have given one or more crops. It includes 

 red and black raspberries, blackberries, currants, grapes, gooseberries, cherries, 

 plums, peaches, pears, apples, quinces and nuts. Lists of the standard sorts that 

 have been thoroughly tested and found desirable are also given. Special atten- 

 tion is also paid to the conditions, climatic and otherwise, under which the 

 various fruits were grown. 



The report of the sub-station for 1904 was printed in April, 1905, as Special 

 Bulletin No. 30. This is a continuation of the work included in the report for 

 1903. 



The following are among the varieties that received favorable mention: 

 Strawberries, Aroma. Brandywine, Clyde, Dunlap, Ernie. Excelsior, Lincoln, Glen 

 Mary, Sample and Seaford. Raspberries, blackcaps, Eureka, Cumberland, Kan- 

 sas; red varieties, Cuthbert, Early King, Marlboro, Miller and Phoenix. Goose- 

 berries, Downing, Josselyn and Pearl, of the American, and Columbus, Keepsake 

 smd Chautauqua of the European kinds. Currants, Red Dutch, Wilder, London, 

 Cherry and Fay as red varieties; White Dutch and Black Naples are also desir- 

 able kinds. Grapes, Moores, Campbell, Ohio, Worden and Concord, black; 

 Diamond, Niagara and Pocklington, white; Delaware, Vergennes and Brighton 

 as red sorts. Cherries, Dyehouse, Richmond, Montmorency and Montreuil of the 

 sour varieties; and Napoleon, Windsor, Plymouth and Governor Wood of the 

 sweet sorts. Peaches, Triumph, Brunson, Oceana, Longhurst and Gold Drop 

 were among the more hardy kinds; of the promising new sorts, Dewey, Banner, 

 Carman, Emma, Hieley, Welch and Worth are highly spoken of; Michigan, St. 

 John, Champion, Engle, Elberta, Kalamazoo, New Prolific, McCollister and Sal- 

 way are among the best of the standard sorts. Plums, Red June, Abundance, 

 Burbank and Satsuma of the Japan varieties; Bradshaw, Lombard, Fellenberg, 

 Arch Duke, Black Diamond, Grand Duke, Bavay and Monarch of the European 

 sorts are well-known and profitable kinds for home use or market; Shropshire 

 and French Damson plums are generally very productive and bring the highest 

 price. Pears, Clapp, Bartlett, Flemish, Howell, Angouleme (Duchess), Seckel, 

 Clairgeau, Dana Hovey, Kieffer, Lawrence and Winter Nelis are among the 

 surest and best sorts. Notes are also given upon nearly eighty varieties of 

 apples. Among the new or little known sorts, especial mention is made of 

 Boiken, Newby, Sutton Beauty, Fanny, Mcintosh, Ontario and Hubbardston. 

 In the bulletins referred to, full descriptions are given of the above named sorts 

 as well as several hundred others, many of which are of much merit. 



In addition to the notes upon the varieties under trial, especial attention is 

 given to the results obtained in a series of spraying experiments in which careful 

 tests upon a variety of fruits were made of several dust sprays, soda-bordeaux 



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