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FRUIT TESTS. 



The following is a list of the large and small fruits which the 

 Statiewa has under cultivation. This list will be greatly enlarged 

 in 1890. 



The object of this work is to test the value of these fruits, not 

 only in the vicinity of the Station, but in various other parts of 

 the State. It is especially necessary to secure a trial of new or 

 untried varieties of apples in several localities, as a success or 

 failure of a particular apple in one place should not be accepted 

 as conclusive with regard to the whole State. To this end it is 

 proposed to distribute scions to apple growers in different sections 

 of Maine, to be used in top grafting, as in this way definite 

 results will be soonest reached. Scions were cut last fall from 

 nearly all the varieties of apples given in the list, many of which 

 will be distributed the coming spring. 



LIST OF FRUITS SET AT THE STATION IN 1889. 



Apples. 

 Alexander. 

 Bellflower. 

 Canada Russett. 

 Chenango. 

 Earlj'- Strawberry. 

 Fallawater. 

 Fameuse. 

 Gravensteiu. 

 Hubbard ston. 

 Hurlburt. 

 Jonathan. 

 King of Tompkins. 

 Mcintosh. 

 McLaughlin. 

 Mother. 



Newtown Pippin. 

 Northern Spy. 

 Peach of Montreal. 

 Peck's Pleasant. 

 Pewaukee. 

 Red Bietigheinier. 

 Red June. 

 R. I. Greening. 

 Ronne Beauty. 

 Roxbiiry Russet. 

 Schiawasse Beauty. 

 Scott's Winter. 



Plums. 



Bavay's Gage. 

 Bradshaw. 

 Coe's Golden. 

 Damson. 

 Duane Purple. 

 Gen. Hand. 

 German Prune. 

 Imperial Gage. 

 Italian Prune. 

 Jefferson. 

 Lombard. 

 Prince Englebert. 

 iTellow Egg. 



Pears. 

 Josephine of Malines. 



Cherries. 

 English Marella. 

 Gov. Wood. 

 Large Montmorency. 

 May Duke. 



Grapes. 

 Amber Queen. 

 August Giant. 

 Biidgton. 

 Champion. 

 Concord. 

 Delaware. 



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