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bunch large and long, compact, often shouldered; berries large, 

 round; skin thick, of pale red color; a little foxey with nice flavor. 

 I would recommend it for family use only. 



Lady — One of the best early white grapes. It is free from 

 mildew, requires a good fertile soil to bear well, but will over-bear 

 if not trimmed. By reason of its early ripening it is specially adapt- 

 ed to northern localities where the Concord does not always ma- 

 ture. It ripens with the Delaware. In color is light greenish vel- 

 low, covered with white bloom. Seed few and small; skin thin; 

 pulp tender; flavor very sweet. Although extra early in ripening, 

 it is late in starting its buds in spring, and thereby escapes the evil 

 effects of late spring frosts: 



Apples were a very late crop indeed. Plums bore a heavy crop 

 and brought from $1.00 to $2.00 per bushel. Strawberries were a 

 good average crop of fine berries. Red raspberries about two- 

 thirds of a crop, but brought a very nice price, making the re- 

 turns as much as if there had been a big crop and a low price. Cur- 

 rants and gooseberries were a good fair crop. 



LA CRESCENT TRIAL STATION. 



FRANK I. HARRIS, SUPT. 



This station, as you all know (and no one realizes this fact more 

 forcibly than the writer), received an irreparable loss in the decease 

 of the former superintendent, my father, the late J. S. Harris, so 

 well and favorably known to you all. 



Fully expecting that the station would be abandoned I made 

 no preparation for continuing the experiments under way until after 

 the summer meeting, when I received official notice from your sec- 

 retary that I had been elected his successor. 



For this reason because of the multitude of other duties devolv- 

 ing upon me, and all demanding a share of my limited time, this my 

 first annual report is not as full and complete as I should desire, 

 and will doubtless prove disappointing to many of the members as 

 well as to myself. 



Could we have known in advance that so soon would my fa- 

 ther's life work be completed, how different it might have been! 

 Living under the same roof for twenty-seven years and within a 

 stone's throw for nearly twenty more, partners in business for 

 twenty-five years, my advantages were favorable, and I now realize 

 that they were sadly neglected. But while our interests were 

 largely mutual, my attention had been absorbed in the struggle for 

 an existence, and my interest in the work principally as a means for 



