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Besides the fruits just enumerated there are growiiig at the 

 Station some novelties or fruits that are little grown, such as 

 the Wineberry, Golden Mayberry, Mulberry, Juneberry, Straw- 

 berry, Raspberry, etc. 



APPLES AND CRAB APPLES. 



S. A. BEACH, W. PADDOCK, C. P. CLOSE. 



With few exceptions the varieties of apples and crab apples 

 which have been received for testing at this Station have been 

 topworked on bearing trees of Baldwin and Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, sometimes they have been worked on young trees of some 

 other varieties, and in many cases root-grafted or budded trees 

 of the varieties designed for testing have been planted. Many old 

 varieties have been included in the orchards that new or little- 

 known kinds may be compared with them. 



Notes on a few varieties based on their records at this Station 

 are given below. Some of them may do better elsewhere than 

 they have done here; others may not do so well. It is not ex- 

 pected that these notes will give a complete report as to the 

 merits of the fruits, but they give their records at the Station up 

 to the present time. 



Notes on Varieties. — Apples. 



In the foUowiiiK pages synonyms and temporary names or numbers of unnamed fruits are 



printed in italics. 



Amasia. — Cions received from Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, 

 N. Y., in 1883, were topworked on a bearing tree. The tree 

 bore one good crop in 1894 and a light crop in 1896. It makes 

 a slow upright growth, and has not yet been very productive 

 here. The fruit is not as attractive as more highly-colored va- 

 rieties are, but it is about the right size for a table apple, and, 

 on account of its good quality, is desirable for dessert use for 

 those who prefer a very mild sub-acid or sweet apple. Season, 

 December to March. 



Fruit medium or below, roundish-conic, sometimes oblique and somewhat 

 ribbed; sivin pale yellow nearly overspread with red, splashed and striped 

 with carmine, and thickly sprinkled with light straw-colored dots; cavity 



