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the apple by crossing. Anything which 

 appertains to vegetative vigor is greatly 

 iiifluenced. This includes the seedling, 

 foliage, size and form of fruit; also the 

 number of Seeds that are set, and this in 

 turn influences the weight of the fruit. 

 In running over a large number of varie- 

 ties we found that the increase of seed 

 gives increase in weight of the fruit. 



In planting varieties for pollenation 

 purposes you must pay attention to the 

 blooming periods, it being desirable to 

 plant varieties which are in full bloom 

 at the same time. This blooming period 

 will vary in the different valleys through- 

 out the Northwest. As a rule you will 

 not get much change in the order of 

 blooming. 



The following is a list of the early 

 bloomers: Bethlemite, Kennedy Sweet, 

 Domine, Early Strawberry, Gravenstein, 

 Grape Bearer, Haas, Handwell Souring, 

 Longfellow, Limber Twig, Montreal 

 Beauty (crab), Oldenberg (Dutchess of), 

 Mann, Oregon Crab, Red Astrichan, 

 Ortley, Stark, Tetosky, Transcendent 

 (crab). Wolf River, Wealthy and Whit- 

 ney (crab). 



The following is a list of the late 

 bloomers: Arkansas Black, Autumn 

 Sweet, Bailey's Sweet, Beitigheimer, 

 Bottle Greening, Ben Davis, Baldwin, 

 Canada Reinette, Canada Red, Char- 

 lottenhaler, Colvert, Dutch Mignonette, 

 Delaware, Ewalt, Fameuse, Gano, Fall 

 Jeneting, Green Sweet, Holland Beauty, 

 Hyslop (crab), Holland Pippin, Hyde's 

 Keeper, Hoover's Red, Jonathan, Jewett's 

 Red, King of Tompkins County, Keswick 

 Codling, Kentucky Red Streak, Mam- 

 moth Black Twig, Martha (crab), Melon, 

 Missouri Pippin, Melon Sweet, Maiden's 

 Blush, McMahon's White, May, Mun- 

 son's Sweet, Yellow Newtown, Northern 

 Spy, Pewaukee, Paradise, Prior's Red, 

 Pumpkin Russett, Ralls, Romanite, Rome 

 Beauty, Rhode Island Greening, Rambo, 

 Spitzenberg, Red Cheeked Pippin, Rock 

 Pippin, Salome, Shiwassee, Steel's Red, 

 Scott's Winter, Summer Queen, Sweet 

 Bough, St. Lawrence, Twenty Ounce, 

 Trimball Sweet, Talman Sweet, White 

 Pippin, Washington, Walbridge, Western 

 Beauty, Willow Twig, Wagener, Wine- 

 sap. York Imperial, Yellow Transparent. 

 In planting an orchard one has to con- 



sider not only the blooming periods, but 

 also the planting in large blocks. As a 

 rule plant from four to six rows of a 

 variety. This is better than alternating 

 varieties when we consider the cost of 

 maintaining an orchard, especially during 

 picking, spraying, etc. 



Concerning the relation of pollenation 

 to color will state that we have been able 

 to detect very few instances where much 

 change of color was shown, the changes 

 being more or less along the vegetative 

 line, such as vigor of seedling, size, etc., 

 which would in turn change the vigor in 

 the twigs, foliage, wood, etc. The seed- 

 ling of a White Winter Pearmain in con- 

 trast with the Ben Davis are extremely 

 marked. 



We make from these studies on earth 

 some vital problem along vitality of 

 fruit trees, and it may be that in the near 

 future we will pay more attention to the 

 seedling for nursery stock as the ba.,is 

 for our investigation. Of all the charac- 

 teristics of the fruit the first one seems 

 to be affected by pollenation in size, this 

 becomes very marked. 



In connection with our orchard studies 

 with the flower we have also been con- 

 ducting bud studies. We have been col- 

 lecting buds throughout the year and are 

 getting together a large amount of mate- 

 rial which will be of great value in 

 pruning, thinning, cause of sterility, etc. 

 Concerning the time in which the flower 

 buds are fully formed we have been 

 unable to complete our laboratory studies 

 of the material collected, but will state 

 that they are certainly formed by the 

 last of August, as all the buds collected 

 at that time show that the fruit buds 

 were formed. How much earlier we can- 

 not state until we complete our labora- 

 tory stduies, which we hope to do in 

 the near future. 



Concerning thinning will state that we 

 have made several observations, espe- 

 cially with the Newtown apple and the 

 Bartlett and Howell pears. We have 

 found that if a pear is thinned from a 

 spur the following season the same spur 

 produces fruit rather than leaf or fruit 

 buds. On yellow varieties of apples and 

 most varieties of pears it would be 

 feasible to allow two specimens to a fruit 

 spur and remove all fruit from the 

 remaining spurs. In this way only one- 

 half the spurs would bear each year. 



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