428 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Whitney (No. 20) — Large for a crab apple; handsomely colored, fine quality for 

 eating out of hand. Tree vigorous and productive. August. Valuable for home 

 use. 



QUINCES. 



The trees bloomed very full and set a full crop of fruit, but later in the season 

 they were attacked with fire blight, and very severe pruning was necessary in 

 order to check the disease. A large per cent of the crop was cut off in this way. 

 None of the varieties were wholly exempt from the attack of the blight, but 

 Missouri, Rea and Orange were most affected, while Meech seemed to be the most 

 resistant and gave the largest yield. 



Notes on Varieties. 



Alaska — Not so large as Orange, otherwise not very different from it. 



Orange — Large; yellow; quality good; productive and a valuable market variety. 



Meech — Of medium size; very late in ripening and does not color very well; 

 very productive but the quality is only fair. 



Missouri — Of the largest size and a good quality. The earliest ripening variety; 

 moderately productive. 



Rea (Mammoth) — Very large; yellow; fine quality; vigorous, very productive. 

 A seedling of the Orange but a larger and finer quince than that variety. 



NUTS. 



All classes of nuts on trial fruited this season except the pecans and English 

 walnuts. Paragon proved the most productive of the chestnuts, although the crop 

 from this variety was not as large as last year. It blossomed full and set a full 

 crop of burs, of which a large per cent failed to fill out. Of the filberts, Cosford 

 is proving more productive than Kentish Cob. 



CHESTNUTS. 



AMERICAN. 



Hathaway — This variety is a seedling of the native sweet chestnut and except 

 for being a little larger, does not appear different from that class. It has borne 

 few specimens from a tree planted in 1890 and is evidently very slow in coming 

 into bearing. 



EUROPEAX. 



Comfort — Trees received in 1894 and are increasing in yield every year. While 

 it does not equal Paragon in early-bearing qualities, it promises to be productive 

 and the trees are handsome, vigorous growers. The nuts are, if anything, a little 

 better in quality than Paragon and about the same in size. Ranks next to that 

 variety. 



Numbo — A very poor grower. The nuts are of large size and of good quality 

 and are borne in smaller, thinner burs than the other varieties of this group. 

 Bears some nuts annually but with its lack of vigor is not as desirable as either 

 Paragon or Comfort. 



Paragon — The most valuable variety on trial. The tree is a handsome grower 

 and an early and abundant bearer; nuts of large size and good quality. 



JAPANESE. 



The trees of this class are very slow growers and small in size. The nuts are 

 from medium to very large in size, and are borne in small thin burs. The quality 

 is not so good as is that of the European kinds. They usually come into bearing 

 very early and would also make handsome little trees for ornamental purposes. 



