EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 2538 
more, plants continuing to die out during the entire summer, and 
few new plants were formed until late fall;and such did not become 
strongly rooted. Fortunately, the winter was not exceptionally 
cold, and the damage not as great as generally feared. Orchard 
trees generally came through without apparent injury but did not 
bloom nearly as full as in 1894. Nursery stock suffered consider- 
ably from root-killing of one and two-year old trees, and the sup- 
posed hardier varieties, as Oldenburg and Patten’s Greening, much 
worse than the more tender varieties. The roots of blackcap rasp- 
berries and blackberries were considerably weakened and are not 
throwing up the usually strong canes for next year’s fruiting. 
FRUIT CROP AND PROSPECTS.—The strawberry crop has been very 
light, not exceeding one-fourth of an average, and beds two or more 
years old have borne better than the plantations made last year: 
Quite severe frosts occurred on several mornings after plants had 
bloomed and set fruit, which, owing to lack of vigor in plants, 
wrought great injury. The Bederwood and Crescent were injured 
worse than other varieties; on the Bederwood the foilage suffered 
greatly and the pollen was rendered abortive for fertilizing pistillate 
varieties. The varieties suffering the least were Warfield, Michel, 
Parker Earle and Haverland. Raspberries gave promise of an 
abundant crop, which was lowered fully one-half by the frost. 
With favorable conditions blackberries may give nearly our average 
crop. Grapes suffered fully as bad as the strawberry, but favorable 
weather following has brought out a new growth of canes and a 
promise of nearly a half crop if fall frosts do not occur too early. 
The apple crop promises to run from about one-fourth to one-half 
of afullcrop. Cherries, currants and gooseberries are all carrying 
a fair crop. The show for native plums is better than at first ex- 
pected. The Cheney and Rollingstone being better than Desota, 
Hawkeye, Forest Garden and many others. 
No reports can be made of the varieties of small fruits added 
to the list last season. The Royal Church raspberry lived but did 
not make a very strong growth. They did not receive any injury 
from the winter and are carrying a little fruit. Of older varieties, 
the Shaffer appears to have been injured the worst, and the planta- 
tions of all kinds set in 1894 worse than those that were a year older, 
except where poor or no cultivation was given. 
ADDITIONS MADE THIS SEASON.—One hundred and forty-eight 
apple trees were planted in the experimental orchard; 35 of the 
varieties are such as we have not before put on trial, and about a 
dozen of them are seedlings not on trial in any other station. We 
have found the Red Queen (Russian) more tender than the Wealthy 
and about as subject to blight as the Transcendent crab and not 
worthy of further cultivation; also a few seedlings that have not 
received names or descriptions will be dropped from further trial. 
About twenty additional varieties have been added to the nursery. 
No new varieties of strawberries except the Herbst and Sparta have 
been planted for testing. The Columbian, Loudon and Logan rasp- 
berries have been furnished us by Prof. Green, of the state station. 
