82 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Early Sweet — Vigorous, upright, spreading. First fruited 

 in 1896 (one-half bushel). Fruit of medium size, yellow, juicy, 

 sweet. Valuable for the north. 



Revel Borsdorfer — Very vigorous, spreading, hardy, produc- 

 tive. Resembles King in habit of growth. Fruit large, coni- 

 cal, yellowish-white, washed and splashed with carmine. Flesh 

 crisp, agreeably acid. Good. Season late autumn and early 

 winter. Very promising. 



Royal Table — Very vigorous, upright, spreading, productive. 

 First fruited in 1894. One and one-half bushels in 1896. 



Russian Gravenstein — Very vigorous, upright, spreading, with 

 heavy dark foliage. Fruit medium, conical, ribbed, yellow 

 splashed with red, calyx large, closed, in a shallow, irregular 

 basin. Stem one and one-half inches, stout and rather deep 

 cavity. Flesh rather coarse, white, crisp, tender, juicy, brisk 

 sub-acid. Good. Season September. As grown in Aroos- 

 took county this variety is some two weeks later than at the 

 Station and the fruit is smaller. 



Striped Winter — Vigorous, upright, spreading. Branches 

 sparingly. First fruited in 1894; one-half bushel in 1896. 



Other varieties in Mr. Tarr's collection which are of more 

 or less value are: Anis, Antonovka and Mallett. 



Orchard Work at Perham. — As stated in a former report* 

 arrangements were made in 1891 by which a large num- 

 ber of varieties of fruits have been sent to the farm of 

 Mr. James Nutting, Perham, Aroostook county. Mr. 

 Nutting died in 1893, but the work has been continued, 

 under the supervision of the writer, by Mr. Oliver Y. Nut- 

 ting, to whom much credit is due. 



The cions set in bearing trees in 1891 made a vigorous 

 growth and most of them have borne some fruit. The close 

 planting and rank growth of the Duchess trees used as stocks 

 have, however, seriously affected the size and quality of the 

 fruit. Aside from the question of hardiness, therefore, the 

 value of many of the different varieties can not as yet be stated. 



In 1892 cions of sixteen varieties were crown, grafted on 

 Duchess seedling stocks. Others were added the following 

 year. In 1895 all that were of sufficient size (13 varieties) were 



Report Maine Experiment Station 1891, p. 97. 



