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Mcintosh. 

 Wealthy. 

 Fall Pippin. 

 Grimes Golden. 

 Oldenburg. 



Jonathan. 

 Baldwin. 

 King. 

 Fameuse. 

 Twenty Ounce. 



The Jonathan trees came into bearing at three and four 

 years, and have borne continuous crops ever since. The 

 Mcintosh, while coming in a little later, has also produced con- 

 tinuous and very bountiful crops, six trees producing at eight 

 years thirty boxes, or an average of five boxes. The other 

 varieties mentioned have been almost equally successful. 



5. To test the practicability and commercial value of very 

 close planting in orchards, a block of apple trees was set in 

 1912 at 10 feet each way, using Wealthy, Wagener and Olden- 

 burg. These varieties lend themselves naturally to such a use, 

 as they are all relatively small-growing and early-bearing trees. 

 The trees are coming into bearing nicely, and the results already 

 seem to indicate that the plan has distinct value. We have not 

 yet reached the stage where the trees begin to crowd each other 

 and therefore need to be headed in severely, which will be the 

 most difficult stage of the work, but it is believed that with the 

 plans we have in mind for pruning and culture these trees can 

 be handled profitably for many years. 



6. Since the autumn of 1910 work has been carried on in the 

 renovation of an old apple orchard, on land at that time under 

 lease but which has since been purchased by the college. The 

 block includes about 4 acres with 92 trees on it, and at the 

 time work was started it had been continuously neglected for 

 many years. The land has been plowed, cultivated and ferti- 

 lized regularly since the work was undertaken, and several types 

 of pruning have been practiced on the trees according to the 

 condition of their tops. The net result has been that this 

 orchard has been changed in the course of six years from a 

 state of absolute neglect, with the trees yielding nothing but 

 cull apples, and not many of these, to a thrifty and prolific 

 block of trees, many of which are almost models in shape, and, 

 barring the heavy trunks and large scars where branches have 

 been removed, might easily be mistaken for trees twenty years 

 of age. What has been done in this block might be done with 



