HORTICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS AT SAN ANTONIO. 5 
varieties of pears could be used in the farmer’s orchard with the 
expectation of securing reasonably good results. Persimmons, when 
worked on resistant stocks, do well and produce fruit nearly every 
year. Pecans are native here, and while they probably can not be 
grown successfully on the uplands without an outlay for irrigation 
that would be prohibitive, they can be grown on the low lands, where 
there is ground water within reach of the roots. Dewberries should 
be included in the farmer’s garden and by selecting several of the 
better varieties should prove a valuable addition to the fruit supply 
for his table. 
Owing to the demand made upon the experiment farm for all the 
information available regarding the possibilities of fruit culture in this 
section, it has seemed best to include the information available regard- 
ing many other fruits which have been tested, but not sufficiently to 
ascertain how large a part they will play in the fruit production of 
the region. 
In some instances, for example apples and cherries, there is no 
information at hand that would indicate that they should be added 
to the farmer’s orchards; in fact, the weight of evidence is against 
them. In the case of other and less common fruits, such as the 
citrange, there is a lack of information regarding how they will behave 
under local conditions. 
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VARIETY TESTS. 
PEACH SELECTIONS. 
The experimental work with peaches has shown some of the reasons 
why this crop has not been generally successful in the San Antonio 
region. Notwithstanding the fact that the trees often grow well, 
particularly when young, it appears that the standard varieties of the 
North seldom fruit in this region and are slow to develop flowering 
buds. They aiso show other irregularities, such as blossoming in the 
autumn and early winter, or the blossoms may be delayed until very 
late in the spring. This lack of adaptability is such as to disqualify 
many varieties and limit the selection to sorts that. do not show these 
tendencies. With a few exceptions, the varieties of the Persian, 
North China, and Peen-to races have shown this undesirable new- 
place effect or for one reason or another have not been productive. 
On the other hand, varieties of the Spanish and South China races, 
and especially some of the better seedlings from these varieties, have 
been found much better adapted to San Antonio conditions. Not all 
of the varieties of these last two races are satisfactory, however, 
particularly some of those of the Spanish group. A few of them, 
particularly of the South China race, are highly susceptible to chlo- 
rosis, and some varieties of both races have proved to be shy bearers 
or to yield inferior or mediocre fruit. 
