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planting. For a more complete discussion of tliis subject the reader 

 is referred to the article on " Fertilization of Flowers in Orchards 

 and Vineyards " in the annual report of this Station for 1894. 



Published descriptions of the varieties, accounts of their origin and 

 introduction, reports as to their value in other localities and other 

 observations of interest are kept on slips of paper arranged in alpha- 

 betical order after the manner of a card index so as to be readily 

 accessible for reference. The results of the tests of blackberries, 

 dewberries, raspberries and strawberries are issued each year. This 

 season a bulletin on currants has been published and it is proposed 

 to prepare bulletins of gooseberries, grapes, stone fruits and 

 pomaceous fruits as fast as the time available for this purpose 

 permits. 



Collections of fruits true to name are annually exhibited at the 

 State Fair and at various county or district fairs throughout the 

 State. These exhibitions are of considerable educational value in 

 that they give opportunity to examine the fruit of many new or 

 little known varieties and to compare them with standard sorts 

 grown under similar conditions. 



Some idea of the extent to which the testing of fruits is carried on 

 at the Station may be formed from the following statement of the 

 number of varieties of the different fruits that were grown and 

 fruited here during 1895. These figures are exclusive of varieties 

 received for fall planting, Station seedlings, novelties like the Stanley 

 berry and Mayberry, and fruits that are little grown, such as mul- 

 berries and huckleberries. 



