48 HATCH EXPEKIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



flowering and bedding plants have been added to the collec- 

 tion under glass. Comparisons have also been made respect- 

 ing the eflects of various kinds and difierent 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 

 best 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 advantajje. 



Varieties of Fruits. 



The varieties of fruits now under observation on the col- 

 lege grounds may be enumerated as follows : — 



Apples, 150 varieties; pears, G7 ; 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 Shafl"er 

 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, Ma^' berry, salmon berry, Logan berry, 

 strawberry-raspberry. Rocky Mountain cherry, sand cherry, 

 June ])erry, Japanese walnut, Spanish, JTapanese and hybrid 

 chestnuts. 



Spraying Outfit. 



Machine Pumps. — The expense of applying insecticides 

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

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

 with the Victor machine pump, resulting in a great saving of 

 time, the power being applied by gearing attached to the 



