-3- 



y Roxbury Russet - It is tliought that this variety originated in Roxbury, 

 Massachusetts, early in the seventeenth centmy, 



Williams - Originated in Ro::bury, Massachusetts. It v^as brought to 

 the attention of the Massachusetts Society in I830, 



■ Yfealthv - Originated by Peter ivi, Gideon, Excelsior, Iilinnesota from 

 seed of the Cherry Grab about i860, 



Yfolf River - Originated near Wolf River, V/isconsin, Catalogued by 

 the American Pomological Society in I88I, 



YelloYf Transparent - Imported from Russia ty the United States Depart- 

 ment of' Agriculture in 1870« 



Red Astrachan - A Russian apple imported by the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society in 1835 # 



j/Rome - Originated in Lawrence County, Ohio, before l8U8« 



W, J. Lord 



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IViURIATE vs SULFATE FORM OF POTASSIUIvI 



Some of you older fruit gro\'rers may rei.iember the Old Station Orchard 

 in which a fertilizer experiment was started in IO9O one purpose of which 

 was to determine the relative value of muriate of potash and sulfate of 

 potash for orchard purposes. Even though tree growth and yield were 

 greater on the sulfate plot the design of the experiment was inadequate 

 to justify positive conclusion to be dra'.Yn, 



In a later experiment in which raspberries were included v/inter injury 

 was found to be considerable greater on uiuriate plots than the sulfate ones 

 vrith resulting material increase in yield on the sulfate plots. 



At the recent meeting of the American Society for Horticultural 

 Science, Dr, Shaulis of Nev/ York reported on a carefully designed e?>eriment 

 with red currants conducted in the state over a seven year period. He 

 stated definitely that muriate of potash is inferior to sulfate of potash 

 for that fruit crop because the muriate causes a marginal scorch of the 

 foliage, retards bush grovrbh and is associated with a yield decrease of 

 about 20^, Leaf analyses showed a greater accumulation of chlorides in the 

 foliage of the muriate - treated bushes than on any other plot. 



So maybe there is a difference in value of these two forms of potash 

 for some fruit crops, 



— A, P, French 

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