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fruited on the Station grounds, but it ranks fifth in productive- 

 ness among the varieties fruited in two-year-old beds. Its first 

 fruit ripened on June 24 and the last berries were picked on July 

 21st, eight days later than any other variety. In order that we 

 might learn how this variety would thrive in another locality and 

 on different soil, plants of the Hunn together with Station seed- 

 ling No. 208 were sent to Mr. W. D. Barns, of Middle Hope, N. Y., 

 to be tested on his farm. Mr. Barns is a fruit grower of wide 

 experience and in whose judgment we place implicit confidence. 

 His report, which is self-explanatory, is appended: 



" I will now report concerning the Hunn, and Station seedling 

 No. 208 strawberries which were sent to us for testing. 



" The plants, one thousand of each variety, were received in 

 good order and set April 23d, 1895. They were put in a vineyard, 

 the grape rows being ten and a half feet apart, and running 

 nearly north and south. There was a low ridge extending across 

 the plat from south-east to north-west, so that a part of each row 

 had a southern and a part northern exposure. The Soil is a 

 sandy or gravelly loam, the top of the ridge being nearly clean 

 slaty gravel. 



" The runners of each variety started early in the season, and 

 gave promise of large beds of well rooted plants. But the drought 

 which commenced early in July and continued till late in the fall 

 prevented most of the runners taking root, and weakened the 

 plants of varieties so that the strawberry crop this season in the 

 Hudson River valley was one of the lighest ever known. Doubt- 

 less the moisture absorbed by the grape roots aggravated the evil 

 effects of the drought. 



'' On the same day that the plants from the Station were set, 

 plants of Lady Thompson, Bubach and Sharpless were set in the 

 same vineyard, adjoining the Station berries. None of the plants 

 of these varieties resisted the drought as well as those from the 

 Station. They neither made as many good plants nor produced 

 as much fruit this season. 



" Last spring thirty-five hundred plants of the Hunn were sent 

 to the Station for distribution among applicants for them. About 

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