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Cherries. Our ten Early Richmond and ten Eno^Hsh Morellos, 

 tliree years old when set last season, nearly every one lived and 

 survived the winter without extra care. My Compass Cherry I 

 am much pleased with. Trees always bear second year after trans- 

 planting and bear profusely every year. Trees set last sprin.s^, but 

 three feet high, blossomed full and are loaded with fruit. They 

 are splendid for canning. 



Strawberries bid fair t'o yield abundantly, although not ripe for 

 market, while foreign berries have been shipped in and sold for 

 seven cents per quart. 



Pears. Twenty five pear trees, of the Bartlett and Seckel 

 varieties, set in the spring of 1905, have shown much thrift and 

 wintered finely without' extra care. Three quince trees set at the 

 same time have lived 1)ut made slow growth. 



Grapes. Five hundred Concord grapes • and fifty Agawam, 

 transplanted last season, nearly every one made good growth and 

 are doing well. 



Extreme cold and wet April and ]\Iay makes garden ]:)roducts 

 very backward. 



JEFFERS TRIAL STATION. 



DEWAIX COOK, SUPT. 



Tune nth, 1906. Fruit trees came through the past winter with 

 but very little injury from the cold. The apple blight has not as 

 yet in any form put in an appearance, while the apple foliage is heal- 

 thier and more free from apple scab than for several seasons. 



The apple crop will be light, as the bloom was scant. No 

 variety can be said to be bearing heavily, although individual trees 

 of the Wealthy, Duchess and some others are bearing a good crop. 



The plum crop will also be light. Cold and Wet weather pre- 

 vailed when the trees were in bloom. Several varieties of Japanese 

 hybrids are bearing full. \\'e are well pleased so far with this 

 class of plums. We notice an occasional small hole in t'he leaves 

 of our native plums, which indicates that the shot hole fungus is 



still with us. 



Red raspberries where sheltered wintered fairly well (we do 

 not cover), and we expect a good crop of this fruit. \Miere planted 

 in a fully exposed locality, we have no variety that shows up as 

 well as the Turner. 



Strawberries in this neighborhood where properly covered will 

 bear a good crop, but unfortunately we covered with nothing but 

 brush, depending upon the snow to do the rest, and as we had an 

 open wdnter the plants mostly winter-killed. But experimentally this 



