48 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



flowering and bedding plants have been added to the collec- 

 tion ninlcr glass. Comparisons have also been made respect- 

 ing the effects of various kinds and different combinations of 

 fertilizers upon growing crops. 



Equipment. 



This division requires for comparison a large number of 

 standard varieties. These are already provided in the col- 

 lege orchard, vineyards, garden and greenhouses. In this 

 work of comparison the most careful, painstaking observa- 

 tion is demanded. Suitable land is also required for the 

 besl growth of each crop, and a great variety of implements 

 and tools for cultivating the same. Each different process 

 requires its own tool, and facilities for storage must be pro- 

 vided, in order to market to the best advantage. 



Varieties of Fruits. 



The varieties of fruits now under observation on the col- 

 lege grounds may be enumerated as follows : — 



Apples, 150 varieties; pears, 67; peaches, 49; plums, 

 103 (including types of all the groups according to the 

 latest grouping); apricots, 13; nectarines, 2; quinces, 8, 

 and many seedlings; cherries, 33; grapes, 143, and more 

 than 500 seedlings not fruited ; currants, 20 ; gooseberries, 

 17 ; red raspberries, 25, and many seedlings of the Shaffer 

 type; black-cap raspberries, 31; blackberries, 21; straw- 

 berries, 157 named varieties, and about 600 seedlings from 

 carefully crossed and selected varieties. Besides the above, 

 there are growing many of the newer fruits, like the Jap- 

 anese wineberry, May berry, salmon berry, Logan berry, 

 strawberry-raspberry, Rocky .Mountain cherry, sand cherry, 

 June berry, Japanese walnut, Spanish, Japanese and hybrid 

 chestnuts. 



Spraying Outfit. 



Machine Pumps. — The expense of applying insecticides 

 and fungicides bj hand pumps has been so great in the past that 

 most of the work during the season just elapsed has been done 

 w iih the Victor machine pump, resulting in a great saving of 

 time, the power being applied by gearing attached to the 



