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six little sprouts, and the people who got them got them into bear- 

 ing in three years, and as they propagated readily from sprouts the 

 man soon had a large orchard of them, and in a single year he sold 

 233 bushels of fruit. 



Mr. Gibbs : How do you get rid of the sprouts? 



Mr. Brand: They have got to be treated just like weeds. If 

 you keep them cleaned out from the start you will never have any 

 trouble. Always cut them down in August. Just take a scythe 

 and mow them down. 



Mr. Fink: What do you think about the Bessarabian? 



Mr. Yahnke: It is a good cherry, a late but shy bearer. 



Mr. Wedge: I can say a word about it. The reason it is a shy 

 bearer is because its fruit buds are very tender. A very ordinary 

 degree of cold will kill them, while the tree itself is very hardy. 



REPORT OF EXCELSIOR TRIAL STATION FOR 1901. 



A. B. LYMAN, EXCELSIOR. 



The apple crop although not as large as usual was a very profit- 

 able one, because of the high prices prevailing. Duchess, Hiber- 

 nal, Patten's Greening and others averaging about $4.50 per barrel. 

 Our Transcendent crabs bore a small crop and sold for fair prices, 

 while the later crabs, like our Prolific, sold at $6.00 per barrel. 

 This last named variety is marketed the latter part of September, 



Apple trees in the trial orchard, received in the early nineties, 

 were well loaded with fruits; three trees labeled "Aromatinoe" were 

 laden with fruits of a peculiar waxen color. If this variety con- 

 tinues to do as well as it has in our trial orchard it is a valuable 

 early apple. Another variety received the same time is the Low- 

 land Raspberry. They have blighted somewhat in the nursery, yet 

 the three trial trees have done remarkably well. 



Our Patten's Greening did better this year than usual. In 1899 

 and 1900 they were troubled with a sort of dry rot, while this sea- 

 son there was none of this trouble. The past season we sprayed 

 them thoroughly with Bordeaux mixture. Was the improvement 

 due to spraying? We had the University apple fruit for the first 

 time this season; we were somewhat disappointed in the fruit not 

 coloring as had been represented. 



Apple trees in general made a remarkably good growth the past 

 season; especially was this true of trees of from one to three years' 

 planting. Perhaps the good growth was due to our mild winter of 

 a year ago leaving the trees in a vigorous condition in the spring. 



I shall at this time call your attention to the marked difference 

 in the behavior of two plantings of apple seeds by my father, the 

 late H. M. Lyman. In the year 1868 he planted a lot of seed from 



