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studying methods of cranberry and blueberry growing there. He brought 

 back bud wood of two very select blueberry strains (Nos. 620A and 834A 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry), canying it on ice in a thermos bottle 

 (luring the trip home. It was cut from bushes in Miss Elizabeth C. 

 White's plantation at Whitesbog, N. J., on the morning of August 4. 

 Buds from it were inserted on sprouts in the station plantation on dates 

 and in numbers as follows : — 



August 8, No. 834A, 12 buds. 

 August 9, No. 620A, 40 buds. 

 August 10, No. G20A, 7 buds. 



Prof. F. V. Coville's and Miss White's methods were followed in this 

 budding. Only two of the fifty-nine select buds inserted developed into 

 sprouts in 1918. The severe winter probably killed a large percentage of 

 them. 



The wi-iter visited Miss White's plantation again in 1918, and brought 

 back more select bud wood, buds from which were inserted in sprouts in 

 the station plantation as follows : — 



July 28, No. 834A, 23 buds; No. 1004A, 11 buds. 

 July 29, No. 1004A, 8 buds; No. 620A, 32 buds. 

 July 30, No. 620A, 3 buds; No. 823A, 20 buds. 



The bud wood was cut from Miss White's bushes on the afternoon of 

 July 25. 



