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the blight in the laboratory and thence inoculated healthy trees, pro- 

 ducing the blight. He found the Kieffernot blight proof, and that there 

 was very little difference in the prevalence of blight in sod and culti- 

 vated ground. A healthy growth, well ripened, is the best way to keep 

 off the blight. If your tree is growing all right, let it alone or treat it 

 as you are now doing. Either forcing or neglecting a tree causes 

 disease. 



The bacteria of pear-blight, under a microscope of 600 diameters, 

 looks like fine dust. 



J. G. Kinder — Does blight enter the circulation of the sap? 



Prof. Clark — The only real live part of a tree is just between the 

 bark and the wood — the candium layer. What grows this year is dead 

 next year. 



HORTICULTURE AT THE EXPERIMENT STATION. 



PROF. J. W. CLARK, COLUMBIA. 



The work of the Horticultural department of the Experiment sta- 

 tion for the past year has been that of testing the several varieties of 

 fruits already on the grounds, in bearing condition. 



Planting out of both new and old varieties of large and small fruits, 

 in order to test them side by side, and under as nearly the same con- 

 ditions as to soil, exposure, etc, as possible.. 



The keeping qualities of 21 varieties of apples have been compared. 



Seeds from six firms doing business in the State were tested to find 

 the percent of good and poor seeds in each lot. The average percent 

 of germination varied from 60 to 89 percent. 



The following are the names of the firms from whom the seeds 

 tested were obtained, and the order of germination : Dingee & Conard 

 Co., West Grove, Pa., 89 per cent ; T. Lee Adams, 419 Walnut St., Kan- 

 sas City, Mo., 71 per cent ; Plant Seed Co., 812, 814, X. 7th St., St. 

 Louis, Mo., 66 per cent ; Michel Plant and Seed Co., 911, N. 4th St., 

 St. Louis, 63 per cent ; C. C. Young & Son, 1406 Olive St., St. Louis, 61 

 per cent; W. W. Harnden & Co., 417 Walnut St, Kansas City, Mo., 60 

 per cent. The results of these tests were published in Bulletin Xo. 6, 

 of the Experiment station. 



Forty varieties of strawberries were fruited upon the grouuds the 

 past Bummer, which ripened in regard to their first picking, as follows: 



