FRUIT CULTURE. 29 



We want an early apple of large size, good color and 

 fine quality, and a late one of as large size and fine quality 

 as the Gravenstein, with the color and productiveness of the 

 Baldwin. We want a pear that will keep as late as the 

 Easter, of large size, good color and quality, equal to or 

 better than Dana's Hovey. We want an early peach of large 

 size, a freestone, of good quality and more hardy than any 

 we now have ; a plum, yery early, of large size, good color, 

 and of as good quality as the Green Gage. We want a 

 grape as early, vigorous and hardy as the Moore, of better 

 quality, and one that will adhere to the stem as well as the 

 lona, and that can be kept until the holiday trade. In the 

 lilackberry, we want a fruit as large as the Kittattiny or Wil- 

 son, perfectly hardy and of better quality than the Agawam 

 or Snj^der ; in the raspberr}^, a berry as large as the Cuth- 

 bert, as vigorous and productive, but of better quality and 

 ripening as early as the Hansel and Marlborough. We 

 want a strawberry of the quality and form of the Hervey 

 Davis or Henderson, with the size of the Sharpless or 

 Jewell and the productiveness of the Crescent or Wilson. 



There is a great deal of pleasure in testing new varieties, 

 but more disappointment, as nineteen out of twenty prove 

 of less value than the old standard sorts. New varieties 

 should be tested at the public expense. For the past two or 

 three years all promising, new varieties of fruits have been 

 obtained at the College in hopes of learning their real value ; 

 but limited funds, which make it necessary for us to pay 

 expenses l)y the income derived from the crops, must pre- 

 vent our doing the work as thoroughly as otherwise we 

 might. 



Equipped with established plantations of all of the old, 

 standard varieties of fruits, with a great variety of soil, 

 as to quality, location and exposure, few places can offer 

 such promise for success in this work. If a part of the 

 fund to be derived from the Government, under the Hatch 

 Experimental Station law, can be devoted to this work at 

 the College, we can promise results very valuable to the 

 people many years Ijefore any results whatever can be obtained 

 from the Experiment Station, where there is hardly an apple 

 tree even upon the ground, for comparison. 



