OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION: MONTHLY BULLETIN 



from catalog to catalog. Each year a very few meritorious, new 

 varieties appear but any catalog listing a lot of wonderful new kinds 

 is to be looked upon with suspicion. 



The location of the nursery is unimportant except in two par- 

 ticulars. There is a distinct advantage when the nursery is near 

 enough so that the buyer may visit it and personally select the 

 stock and thus know just what he is getting. Berry plants, es- 

 pecially black caps and strawberries, do not stand shipment as well 

 as trees and vines and if poorly packed or delayed in transit they 



may arrive in poor condition. 

 For this reason it is best, 

 whenever possible, to get 

 these plants from plantations 

 near home. With potatoes 

 and some garden seeds there 

 is some difference in behavior, 

 depending upon the latitude in 

 which the seed was grown and 

 this has led many to believe 

 that a similar difference might 

 exist between nursery stock 

 from different sections. In 

 order to maintain our variety 

 fruit collections at the Ex- 

 periment Station we annually 

 order trees and plants from 

 probably between 25 and 50 

 different nurseries located in 

 all parts of the country from 

 Ontario to Georgia and Texas 

 and from Maryland to Oregon. 

 We have failed to find any 



evidence to prove that a tree or vine from Georgia or Texas is 

 in any way inferior to the same variety from Ohio and New York. 

 Many southern varieties are unsuited for northern culture and 

 behave differently here than in their native state so that one must 

 make allowance for the descriptions of southern varieties in south- 

 ern catalogs, but duplicate lots of trees from Georgia, Ohio and 

 Ontario, if equally mature and equally rooted would grow equally 

 well and be equally hardy. It is advisable, however, to avoid 

 planting southern-grown trees in northern latitude in the fall. This 

 is because southern-grown trees do not mature early enough to be 

 planted in the fall in cold climates. 



Woolly aphis causes distorted growth 



