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CIRCULAR NO. 129, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 



follows, together with a discussion of some of the more important 

 results. 



FRXnX VARIETIES, 



The fruit variety tests include 1 1 different kinds of fniit, of wliich 

 327 difl'erent varieties are being gnnvn. The number of individuals 

 being tested in each variety varies from 2 of ([uinces, nectarines, and 



PUBLIC RO^D 



UHATILLA EXPERIDENT FARH 



Fig. 2.— Diagram of the Umatilla Kxperiment Farm, showing the arrangement of the fields and the 



location of the experiments in 1912. 



apricots to 25 of strawl)erries. Tlie total number of indivichials in 

 the fruit variety tests is 3,544. The names of tlie fiiiits aiul the 

 num])er of varieties and individuals of each are given in Table IV. 



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