NEW CREATION IN FRUITS. 



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ported seed is no doubt due to the large area over which seed 

 was gathered, the northern type being hardier than the southern 

 type. The present indications are that the Pyrus Ussuriensis, 

 from the Pacific coast section of Siberia, will be the coming pear 

 stock, as the tree is absolutely hardy and very strongly resistant 

 to blight. My experience with the Japan pear seedlings is that 

 they make a fine growth 

 in nursery and take buds 

 easily. But the winter 

 of 1915-16 was one of 

 deep snow, so we could 

 not give it the fair test 

 as to whether mulching 

 or not mulching made 

 much difference. In my 

 opinion, extensive or- 

 chards of Pyrus Ussur- 

 iensis should be estab- 

 lished as quickly as pos- 

 sible, so as to raise an 

 abundance of seed from 

 which to grow nursery 

 stocks. 



It is interesting to 

 note that the apple or 

 pear blight, caused by 

 the same bacteria, is not 

 found in Europe or Asia. 

 It is purely an Ameri- 

 can disease, native of the 

 northeastern United States, and is a serious menace to the apple 

 and pear industry of the whole world. It is more destructive 

 on the pear than on the apple. They quarantine against us in 

 Europe so the disease will probably not get over there. 



Apples: After raising 10,000 apple seedlings I still have 

 nothing great to offer you, but a large lot of new seedlings are 

 coming on along new lines of pedigree. The originating of the 

 future winter apple will probably be a step-by-step process rather 

 than a single stride. I was much interested in the past season in 

 a lot of new hybrid crab apples. One of the best was a union of 

 the Cherry crab type with the Duchess apple, which bore a very 

 heavy crop. Many hybrid crabs that have appeared in the past 



Prof. N, E. Hansen. 

 From a recent photograph. 



