STRAWBERRY. 



170 varieties growing; 151 fruited in 189D. 



Of the one hundred and fifty varieties fruited twenty-sjx pro- 

 duced fruit for the first time in the Station plots. Each kind is 

 grown on both heavy and light land and several varieties were found 

 to produce more fruit upon one kind of soil than upon the other. 

 Those yielding the greatest amount of fruit on heavy soil were 

 Methuen, Sample, Brandywine, Bismarck, Glen Mary, Maximus, 

 Preuiiuto and Seaford. Those producing the largest yield on light 

 land were Clyde, Howards No. 4, Haverland, Moore, Patrick, Paris 

 King, Plymouth Rock, Seedling No. 104, Sample and Shusters. 

 The varieties to be recommended, based on the results of the past 

 three years, for general cultivation, for size, quality and productive- 

 ness are the Clyde, Glen Mary, Sample and Brandywine. "When 

 extremely large berries are desired, the Marshall, Bubach and Gleu 

 Mary will generally be satisfactory. 



FERTILIZERS FOR THE APPLE. 



A large majority of the apple trees in Massachusetts do not make 

 the growth of tree necessary to produce fruit of large size and fine 

 quality, frobably nine-tenths of these trees are growing in land 

 from which a crop of grass or hay is expected and little or no fer- 

 tilizing material is applied. In many cases the land is so covered 

 with rocks as to make it very expensive to plow or cultivate. It is 

 beyond question that fruit such as is demanded by our markets, 

 especially for shipping purposes, cannot be grown upon such trees 

 unless they are made to produce a more vigorous growth of foliage 

 and wood. In some cases where the land is naturally rich or where 

 there is a washing of plant food from higher soil about the roots, 

 trees will grow and produce good fruit under these conditions of 

 neglect, but such locations are few. If the land is light in texture, 

 thorough and continued cultivation would be necessary to produce 

 profitable crops, but in strong, deep soil no such necessity exists if 

 a liberal supply of plant food is applied annuall3^ The question 

 then before us is how to make these trees, growing in pastures, bv 

 the roadside or in mowing lots, produce paying crops of fruits. 

 Numerous experiments made with fertilizers applied to both old and 

 young trees growing in grass, lead us to the conclusion that such 

 trees can be made to grow with sufficient vigor to produce large and 



