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March 21. Peaches now in fullest bloom. Late blooming 

 kinds like Alexander beginning to open. 



These kinds may be roughly classified as to time of bloom- 

 ing in the neighborhood of Auburn about as follows, each 

 group comprising those blooming near enough together in 

 ordinary seasons to affect cross pollenation : 



Earliest Bloomer — Blood plum No. 3. 



Very Early Bloomers — Blood plum No. 4, Kelsey, Sat- 

 suraa, Wild Chickasaw, Wickson, Excelsior, Emerson, Prunus 

 Pissardi, Lone Star. 



Both these groups bloom before peaches and are liable to 

 be killed by spring freezes. 



Early Bloomers — Burbank, Mariana, Berckmans, Chabot> 

 Botan, Bailey's Japan, Yellow Japan, Hattankio, and Eabcock. 

 These bloom about with the early blooming peaches. 



Medium Bloomers — Yellow Fleshed Botan, Munson, Bab- 

 cock, Orient, Berger, Gold, Red June, Normand, Abundance, 

 Rockford, Transparent, Wild Goose, Wooten, Botan, Kerr. 

 These bloom with the later peaches and aie comparatively 

 safe from frost. 



Late Bloomers — Maru, Long Fruited, Red Nagate, Golden 

 Beauty, Newton, President Wilder, Wayland, Chas. Downirg, 

 Weaver, Milton, Whittaker. 



Very Late Bloomers — Ogon, Willaid, Hammer, Wyant, 

 Yosobe, and Hawkeye. 



A number of the names given in the above lists are usually 

 considered synonyms. They are given just as the tiees were 

 sent out by four prominent nurseries. No attempt is made 

 at this time to untangle the nomenclature. 



Spraying with Whiteavash to Retard Blooming. 



The success reported by the Missouri Experiment Station 

 (Bull. 38) in retarding the blooming of peaches in the spring 

 by keeping the trees whitened by spraying with whittwath, 

 suggested the trial of a like experiment heie. 



On February 2, 1898, every other tree in one row each of 

 peaches, plums and pears was sprayed with whitewash. A 

 rain followed within a few days that washed off part of the 



