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Schoonmaker in Amherst for a study of the behavior of these varieties on these 

 stocks. More than 2,000 Mailing stocks were budded to several commercial 

 varieties for further studies of this relationship. 



The young orchard set in 1928, known as Block D, consisting of Mcintosh 

 and Wealthy on Mailing stock, bore its first real crop. Following are yields per 

 tree and trunk diameter: 



With these two varieties the dwarfing stocks, Types 1 to 9 inclusive, do not seem 

 to have hastened production, except in the case of Type 4. Trees on this stock 

 are large and productive but the root anchorage is somewhat weak. Mcintosh 

 does well on Type 1 while Wealthy does poorly. Types 12 and 16 are promising 

 as stocks for standard trees. Types 2 to 9 inclusive are represented by fewer 

 trees than are the others and the averages are less dependable. 



Some studies of root distribution were made by digging semi-circular trenches 

 partially around the trees. The trees are twenty feet apart, and the roots almost 

 meet across this space but seem to have gone down only about two to three feet. 



Tree Characters of Fruit Varieties. (J. K. Shaw and A. P. French.) Photo- 

 graphic records of bloom clusters on about one hundred varieties of apples were 

 made. Flowers and flower clusters are characteristic of the variety and are of 

 value in identifying varieties for the few days that they are available. Some time 

 was given to the study of new varieties in connection with nursery variety in- 

 spection and the certification work of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, which was continued on the smaller scale of recent years. Occasional mix- 

 tures still appear but are very much fewer than formerly. Several hundred thou- 

 sand nursery apple trees in eight different nurseries in New England and New 

 York were examined for trueness to name. Trees of several seedlings of Rome 

 Beauty grown from buds received from the Ohio Station, including Gallia Beauty 

 and Rome, were available for study. Only one of these was found to differ from 

 the others enough for possible identification in the nursery row of yearling trees. 

 This is the first case we have met of seedling varieties that could not be identified. 



Further efforts were made to establish a cherry nursery for the study of varieties. 

 It has proved very difficult to get a sufficiently good stand of buds for study. 



