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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



other sections of the State, but duplicate tests are needed, 

 to liasten the work and make it more exact. 



As to varieties of fruits, the winter pears best suited to 

 New Enghmd conditions mentioned were Anjou and Dana's 

 Hovey ; of raspberries, the Cuthbert ; of blackberries, the 

 Snyder, Agawam and Taylor's Prolific ; of strawberries, the 

 Haverland, Bubach, Greenville, Marshall and Brandywine. 



Of the Japanese plums, it was reported that the fruit buds 

 were all killed and the ends of some of the canes on young 

 trees. 



Training the grape by the one or two arm renewal system 

 was illustrated by a wire fastened to the side of the hall. 

 The principal advantages of the one-arm renewal system 

 (Fig. 1) are: first, simplicity and saving of lalwr in train- 

 ing and tying up, every part of the vine being easily seen 

 by the operator ; second, the fruit and leaves are carried up 

 into the sunlight and air, where they are less subject to the 

 attack of mildew and rot, are out of the reach of poultry, 

 and safe from the spatter of the soil during heavy showers ; 

 third, only two wires are needed, and the labor of pruning 

 is much less than where several arms are employed ; fourth, 

 as large a crop of grapes can be grown as with the many- 

 arm system. In Fig. 1 a part of three vines is shown. The 

 upper cane of last season's growth is represented in fruit, 



while the new cane is trained on the lower wire. The fruit- 

 ing spurs are pinched off as soon as the first leaf is found 

 beyond the last bunch of blossoms, and whenever new shoots 

 start from these laterals one leaf is allowed to grow. The 

 laterals on the new canes are treated in the same wa}^, and 

 the end is stopped in growth as soon as it is a foot past the 

 next vine toward which it is o'rowing. At the end of the 



