LA CRESCENT TRIAL STARION. ANNUAL REPORT. 



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Residence of F. I. Hqrri", I<a Crescent. 



Currants and crooseberries were a very light crop. Rasp- 

 berries where winter covered, nearly a full crop. Leading varie- 

 ties are Cuthbert, red, and Cumberland, black. Grapes yielded 

 a small crop of poor quality. Apples in the commercial orchard 

 where properly sprayed produced a fair crop of good quality, 

 but where spraying was neglected they w^ere not worth gather- 

 ing. Duchess, Wealthy and Patten's Greening were the leading 

 and only paying varieties. A number of new varieties bore for 

 the first time in the experimental orchard, but the fruit was so 

 scattering and weather so unfavorable that spraying was neg- 

 lected and in consequence the fruit was of such poor quality that 

 it was impossible to judge fairl}- of its merits, and I am not ready 

 to recommend any of them without further trial. Many that 

 proved of inferior size have been removed and replaced with 

 standard varieties. This work has been going on for several 

 years, and at present over one hundred large trees are marked 

 for removal. Considerable has been accomplished by pruning 

 and thinning, but much remains to be done. The trouble has been 

 a scarcity of suitable land, and in consequence trees were set too 

 thick. 



Only a very few trees were affected by blight, and no injury 

 done of any consequence. Trees ripened up well and are well 

 filled with blossom buds, and the outlook for a crop is the best 

 for years. 



The pryus baccata trees received for trial arrived very late 

 and were set in a cornfield and so made only a small growth, but 

 are all in a healthy condition except one Hibernal, which proved 

 dead. 



