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Report of the Horticulturist op the 



Lucrative. 



Lucy Duke. 



Macomher No. 6, 



Madam Appert. 



Madam Heminwaj. 



Madam Millet. 



Madam Treyve. 



Madam Von Siebold. 



Manning Elizabeth. 



Marie Benoist. 



Marshall. 



Maurice Desportes. 



Miriam. 



Mount Yernon. 



Nickerson. 



No. 439. 



Old Crassane. 



Oliver Des Serres. 



Ontario. 



Osband Summer. 



Passans du Portugal. 



P. Barry. 



Peffer. 



Peffer No. 3. 



Pitmaston Duchess. 



Pound 



President Drouard. 



Raven wood. 



Raymond of Montlaur. 



Refreshing. 



Reliance. 



Ritson. 



Rutter. 



Saint Crispin. 



Seckel. 



Seneca. 



Sheldon. 



Shull 



Souvenir d'Esperen. 



Supertin. 



Theresa Appert. 



Tyson. 



Urbaniste. 



Yan Cott. 



Yermont Beauty. 



Yictor. 



White Doyenne. 



Wilder Early. 



Winter Bartlett. 



Winter JSTellis. 



Yonngken Favorite. 



Zuckerbirn. 



Total 140 



QUINCES. 

 List of quinces in Station orchards in 1895 : 



Borgeat. 



Champion. 

 D'Alger. 

 Puller. 

 Meeche Prolific. 



Missouri Mammoth. 

 Rea. 



Santa Rosa. 

 Sweet Winter. 

 Yan Deman. 



Total 10 



APRICOTS. 



In 1884, apricots were first planted at this Station for the purpose 

 of comparing the different varieties. They were set in a fertile, 

 rather heavy clay loam, retentive of moisture and imperfectly 

 drained. It is generally conceded that the first essential to suc- 

 cessful apricot culture is a thoroughly drained soil and probably the 

 location of this first planting of apricots is partly accountable for 

 the fact that not one of the nineteen varieties then planted lived 



