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made of the behavior of such as are growing on the station grounds. 

 Nearly every one of these creations are more or less tender and 

 little can be expected from them except possibly from crosses that 

 may be made with our hardy cultivated varieties. The plants 

 reported upon were planted in the spring of 1895. 



Golden Mayherry. Not very vigorous. Appears quite hardy. 

 Stocky and compact in growth. No fruit produced. 



Logan Berry. Wintered perfectly when partly covered with soil. 

 Unprotected canes were badly injured. A few blossoms opened, but 

 no fruit was matured. 



Salmon Berry. Winter-killed to the ground. Is not vigorous. 

 Did not fruit. 



Straivberry Raspberry. Wintered in the house. Set quite a 

 number of berries but they failed to mature. Probably of little 

 value. 



Japanese Wineherry. An interesting novelty but of little value. 



Dwarf Jane Berry. This plant makes a low growth and produced 

 considerable fruit, but its value in the market is doubtful. 



Dwarf Rocky Mo^nitain Cherry. The trees of this fruit are mak- 

 ing a rapid growth, but as yet have borne no fruit. AYith so many 

 more valuable fruits now grown it can hardly be expected that this 

 will become an important product in Massachusetts. 



THINNING FRUITS. 



The past season has emi)hasized the necessity of reducing the 

 number of specimens of fruit on heavily loaded trees in order to 

 save the strength of the tree and improve the size and quality of the 

 fruit. With the apple crop this necessity is more marked than with 

 any other fruit. Nearly all of our fruit trees possess the character- 

 istic of producing one year so large a crop that they cannot mature 

 a crop the next season, requiring sometimes several years to recover 

 from the exhaustion. 



On the station grounds it has been the practice for many years to 

 thin all the kinds of fruit more or less and we present in this 

 bulletin a few illustrations of the beneficial and profitable results. 



No. 1. Two full sized Gravensteins of uniform vigor and pro- 

 ductiveness were selected. One was thinned July 1st, the other 

 being reserved for a check. The fruit set in great abundance and 



