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Safsuma. — Tree upright, spreading, moderate grower; not 

 very hardy, bearing rather sparsely. Fruit usually small with 

 us ; of indifferent quality. Although this variety succeeds in 

 other localities in the Connecticut valley, it is of no value here. 



Hybrid Varieties. 



Apple. — Tree very vigorous, sprawling grower ; hardy, com- 

 ing fairly early into bearing. Fruit medium large, round ; dark 

 red with red flesh. On our grounds this variety promises to 

 take the jAace of Satsuma, to which it seems to be superior in 

 most respects. 



Compass Cherrij. — An interesting hybrid curiosity, but of 

 no value. 



Doris (doubtfully placed among hybrids). — Tree spreading, 

 vigorous, hardy. Fruit small, watery; of no value. 



Duke. — Tree medium strong, ujiright; fruited this year for 

 the first time; of doubtful promise. 



Gold (of Stark Brothers). — Tree small, spreading, irregular 

 in growth ; hardy, bearing early, but never abundantly on our 

 grounds. Fruit round oblate, medium size, yellow, watery; 

 poor quality, ripening very unevenly; much subject to rot. 

 This variety is of no value with us, and our trees have been 

 mostly grafted to other sorts. 



Juicy. — Tree strong and hardy. Fruit small, yellow ; of 

 no value. 



]Vic]cso}i. — Tree upright, strong grower; rather tardy in 

 coming into bearing, and never bearing heavy crops; fruit buds 

 tender, *apt to be frozen. Fruit of medium size, variable in 

 quality; ripening very irregularly. This variety is not to be 

 recommended here. 



Native Varieties. 



There are on tlie grounds several native varieties, mostly 

 Americanas, Hortulanas and Chickasaws. Some of these do 

 fairly well, but none of tliem have conspicuous merit as grown 

 in this section. 



Marketing Plums. 



The very excellent crop of 1 1)04 gave us an opportunity 

 to study the manner in which plums can be sent to market. 

 For the nujst part the crop from the department of horti- 

 culture of the Massachusetts Agricultural College was mar- 

 keted in three-pound baskets, such as are used for grapes ; 



