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Amsden, Alexander, Waterloo, Schumaker, Mt. Rose, Old Mixon 

 Slump, Mrs. Brett, Sally Worrel, Arkansas Traveler, Conklin, Red 

 Cheek, Coolidge Favorite, Morris White, Holland (local seedling). 

 Wager, Wheatland, Reeves Favorite, Smock, E. Crawford, L. Crawford, 

 Foster. 



PLUMS. 



The plum crop has been small in the college orchard and many varie- 

 ties have rotted badly on the tree before fully ripe. Owing to the cool 

 weather, the quality has not been up to the average of former years. 



The curculio has been more than usually abundant, but notwith- 

 standing that nothing has been done to destroy it, those trees that blos- 

 somed and set fruit produced a moderate crop. The black wart upon 

 the branches seems the most serious obstacle to the growth of the 

 plum. We are making experiments with suggested remedies for this 

 disease and hope, another season, to report something of value in this 

 line. In the mean time, every grower should cut away all warts as soon 

 as they break through the bark and burn them, for, with every wart de- 

 stroyed early in the season, millions of spores may be prevented which, 

 under favorable conditions, would produce warts upon other branches. 

 Vigorous growth obtained by good cultivation will, in a measure, prevent 

 the attack of this disease. The following is a list of varieties growing 

 upon our grounds. The old varieties are growing in the college orchard 

 and the newer kinds in the Experiment plot. 



Lombard, Washington, Wild Goose, Yellow Egg, Lnperial Gage, 

 Green Gage, Coe's Golden, Smith Orleans, Bradshaw, McLaughlen, 

 Jefferson, Gen. Hand, Reine Claude de Bary, Prince Englebert, Pond's 

 Seedling, Victoria, Grand Duke, Niagara, Peach, Ogden or Ogan, Kel- 

 sey, Mariana, Quackenbos, Duanes, Lawrence, Simooni. 



CHERRIES. 



Owing to the increase of insect enemies and the ravages of birds but 

 little success has attended the cultivation of this fruit in New England. 

 Unless a large number of trees are grown, the birds get all of the fruit, 

 and should any escape, the larvae of the plum curculio is so abundant, 

 as to render them almost worthless. The question, how to prevent the 

 ravages of birds is a serious one, yet, considering the great benefit such 

 birds as the robin, cat-bird, etc., render in destroying noxious insects, 

 we shall take the ground that they do more good than harm and urge 

 the planting of more trees that they may have a due share of the fruit 

 and leave some for the grower. 



The prevention of insect injuries is a more serious problem. The 

 remedies, applied for the destruction of the curculio on the plum, of 

 jarring of the trees or of planting in poultry yards, cannot be depended 



