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ditions. Many of the familiar Northern market varieties will 

 fail entirely if planted here. Some varieties, it is true, are 

 suited to a wide range of conditions, and will succeed both 

 North and South, but if we are to build up an important 

 Southern apple industry we must mostly rely on apples of 

 Southern origin. 



As an aid in the study of this important question of varie- 

 ties there has been planted at this Station during the last two 

 years an orchard of between eighty and ninety kinds selected 

 from those that seemed to give most promise of being useful 

 for this section. It will, of course, be a number of years 

 before results of value can be expected from this planting. 



It is also intended to procure scions of all the promising 

 native seedlings and local varieties that can be found in dif- 

 ferent parts of the State. By bringing them all togetner on 

 the Station grounds it is hoped that ultimately some may be 

 selected that will prove more valuable under our conditions 

 than the standard kinds now usually planted. The co-opera- 

 tion in this work of all persons in the State who are inter- 

 ested in fruits, is earnestly desired, and the Station will feel 

 under special obligations to any one who will send scions of 

 fine native apples, or who will put us in communication with 

 parties who can furnish such scions. Scions may be cut at 

 any time during the winter while the trees are dormant, and 

 can be sent by mail done up with a little moss or damp grass 

 to keep them fresh. 



An apple orchard of some forty-five varieties, two trees of a 

 kind, was planted on the Station grounds in March, 1885. 

 The location selected was rather an unfortunate one, being on 

 a poor gravelly knoll. Apples thrive best on a moist and rather 

 stiff soil. Frequent changes in^the management have not led 

 to the carrying out of any continuous system of orchard cul- 

 ture, and a small orchard always seems to suffer more in pro- 

 portion than a large one from the depredations of insects, 

 birds and boys. For these reasons, although the orchard has 

 borne some fruit for several years past, it is not yet possible to 

 express any final opinion as to the value of the different 

 kinds. There is, however, one result that may be recorded 



