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Sweet Orange ripens about the time of the Tolman. It is very prodiic 

 tive but not as good for baking as the Tolman. 



Spencer is a large apple of the Northern Spy type. The tree comes 

 into bearing earlier and the fruit ripens earlier than the Spy. The 

 quality is good. 



Traveler and Star are two new varieties that have just come into 

 bearing. The trees bear early and are productive. Neither is of very 

 high quality. Both are greenish yellow apples with a red cheek. Star 

 ripens in the late fall and Tiaveler is a winter variety. 



At the Sub-station, the Winter Banana continues to be a very de- 

 sirable variety. The tree bears early and regularly. The fruit is a little 

 irregular in size and somewhat susceptible to apple scab. 



PEACHES. 



In a young orchard, planted since the freeze in October, 1906, the 

 Sea Eagle, Judd and Billmyer seem to be already especially promising. 

 The Sea Eagle is the first yellow flesh peach of good quality that is a 

 good shipper, to ripen in this orchard. It is of medium size and well 

 splashed with red; it ripens early in August. The Judd and the Bill- 

 myer are yellow flesh peaches of good quality and appearance. Both 

 ripen the first Aveek in September. 



Mayflower is the first peach to ripen. It is a white cling peach. The 

 skin is well striped and splashed with red. Its appearance is good but 

 the quality is poor. Earliness is its greatest feature; it ripens about 

 the middle of July. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



The Portage gooseberry and the Perfection currant continue to be 

 very valuable and are worthy of a trial by the small fruit growers. 



The Austin dewberry has proven of value. 



The Rathbun blackberry and the Plum Farmer are both very promis- 

 ing varieties. 



We have no new varieties of red raspberries that are at all promising 

 and the same can be reported regarding cherries, plums, pears and 

 grapes. 



EXPERIMENTS. 



During 1911 we conducted a comparative test of the effects of Bor- 

 deaux mixture, commercial lime-sulphur and self-boiled limesulphur in 

 the apple and peach orchards of Mr. C. J. Monroe of South Haven. 



The apples Avere all Wagoners and the sprayings were made at the 

 times generally recommended for spraying apples. The peaches were 

 not all the same variety but were all standard varieties. The formulas 

 used Avere for the commercial lime-sulphur 1 to 50 ; self-boiled lime-sul- 

 phur 8 pounds of lime, 8 pounds of sulphur to 50 gallons of water and 

 of the Bordeaux, 3 pounds of copper sulphate and 5 pounds of lime to 

 50 gallons of water. Poison was added to these spraying materials as 

 required. 



Since there were so few diseases, the greatest ditferences noted were in 

 the general appearance and color of the fruit and foliage in the apple 

 orchard. The trees sprayed Avitli the commercial lime-sulphur produced 



