Cherries. 

 Varieties So, Distance Planted, 20x20 ft. 



The crop of cherries was not as large the past season as usual and 

 was of rather poor quality. No means has yet been found to wholly 

 prevent the work of the plum curculio that causes the wormy fruit, 

 and the brown fruit rot that so often attacks the blossoms and fruit. 

 The use of Paris green combined with the Bordeaux mixture in 

 almost every case caused more or less burning of the foliage. 



The black cherry aphides or plant lice came on in such numbers 

 early in the summer as to do considerable damage. We were unable 

 to see very decided improvement in any new variety fruited over 

 the old standard sorts, the most satistactory of which are E. Rich- 

 mond, Montmorency, Royal Duke, Black Tartarian, Napoleon, Gov- 

 ernor Wood, Smidt and Windsor. 



The fertilizers used, '2 lbs. sulfate of potash, 1 lb. nitrate soda, 

 2 lbs. acid phosfate. per tree. 



The growth notwithstanding the abundance of insects and fungous 

 pests has been good and an unusually large number of fruit buds 

 have been formed for next season's fruiting. 



The Grape. 



Varieties 200, Distance Planted, College Vineyard, 6x8 ft., Station 

 Vineyard, SxlO ft. 



The experiments with this fruit have been conducted in the college 

 vineyard planted in 1868 and 1809 and in the station vineyard, where 

 the vines are from 1 to 10 years old and, where each year the decidedly 

 promising new varieties, offered in the market are planted. The 

 former consists principally of the Concord variety with a few vines 

 each of some of the leading commercial kinds. 



The crop in the station vineyard was more uneven than for many 

 years, largely due to the continued wet weather in July. Some 

 varieties proved entire failures while others were especially fine. 



The crop in the college vineyard was exceptionally fine in quality 

 but not quite as large as in 1896. The fruit sold readily in the 

 local market for five cents per pound. 



Resxdts of Spraying. The college vineyard, except check rows, 

 and one vine of the two of each variety planted for experi- 

 ment in the station vineyard were sprayed according to the cal- 



