EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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want of a better name and is quite descriptive of the disease. Ex- 

 periments are being made in the hopes of controlling these diseases 

 by the use of fungicides. The Hansel, Marlboro and Kenyon's 

 Seedling are doing well. The latter we are fruiting for the first time, 

 and it appears very promising. It is of strong growth. 



BLACKBERRIES. 



Blackberries promise a good crop. Last autumn quite a large 

 plantation of them was put out, and they are ^now making a very 

 nice growth. I am much in favor of autumn planting for this fruit 

 and suckering raspberries, providing the work is carefullj^ done. 



NURSERY AND ARBORETUM, 



The nursery and arboretum are in excellent order and the plants 

 in them making a most satisfactory growth. Among the new plants 

 of interest that have flowered this year is Rubus deliciosus, a flow- 

 ering raspberrjr from the Rocky Mountains. It promises to be very 

 useful as a spring flowering plant. A plate of it with description 



Rubus cleliciosus.--This is the name of a very pretty flowering raspberry recent- 

 U' introduced into cultivation from the Rockj' Mountain region. We obtained 

 small plants of it last season. They made a strong growth and flowered profuselj^ 

 this spring. The flowers very closely resemble the common wild rose but have 

 pure white petals. The leaves resemble those of the currant, and the fruit is large 

 but not edible. It flowered more than two weeks l)efore the native rose and con- 

 tinued in flower much longer. Its hardiness has not been fully ascertained but 

 it wintered perfectly last year, and. as it conies to us from Colorado, it is probably 

 sufficiently hardy for a lawn shrub in fairly good situations. It is of pretty 

 graceful habit, and I think is destined to be very popular when once known. 



appears herewith. Another plant of interest from the same locality 

 is a very large and beautiful Aquelegia. 



