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BOOKS AND BULLETINS. 



periments pointed strongly in the opposite direction. 

 He also considers the carbolated lime remedy very un- 

 reliable or even worthless. He thinks that plum trees 

 set in apple and cherry orchards will attract the curcu- 

 lio, enabling the insects to be fought to advantage. We 

 doubt if plum trees, unless nearly equal in number to 

 the other trees, will attract sufficient insects to protect 

 the other fruits, and we do not believe that growers will 

 ever plant " uuiiicrous plum trees '1 in other orchards for 

 this purpose. Such operation would be too expensive — 

 would interfere too much with the continuity and value 

 of orchards. The author recommends the use of the 

 chip trap, and especially the common jarring process 



which "is to-day the surest, cheapest 

 The Curculio and best method to banish the curculio 

 Aga'"- and save our plums." Chickens and 



stock running in the orchard also lessen 

 curculio. The arsenites find no place in Professor Cook's 

 recommendations this year. 



The curculio is considered to be a friend for three 

 reasons : because it thins plums for lazy people, lessens 

 production and therefore advances prices, and enables 

 us to plant plum trees in apple orchards so that we may 

 kill it ! 



Bulletin No. 67, Michig.^n Experiment Station. 

 Fruit Tcsliug al the SoutJi Haven Siib-statiou . By T. T. 

 Lyon. Pp. j2. Mr. Lyon reports upon a variety of 

 fruits. The rejected strawberries, those 

 Strawberries "unworthy or not requiring farther 

 Rejected. trial " are the following ; Acme, Boone, 



Cohanzick, Dewey, Early Canada, Em- 

 erald, Garibaldi, Hathaway Nos. 3, 5 and 9, Richmond, 

 Shirts, Sunapee, Surprise, Warren. 



" The following varieties of raspberries aflord a sat- 

 isfactory succession for family use, while the surplus, 

 if any, will prove available for market : 

 Red and " First, Thompson ; second, Turner : 



Yellow third, Herstine ; fourth. Golden Queen ; 



Raspberries. fifth, Cuthbert. With high culture and 

 careful winter protection, improved 

 quality may be secured by adding the Brinckle. 



"Among blackcaps of established reputation a valu- 

 able selection for a family garden would 

 Good Black be Souhegan, Tyler or Doolittle, for 

 Raspberries. early, followed by Hilborn (the genuine) 

 and Nemaha, with Shaffer for canning. 

 For a market list Gregg may be substituted for Hilborn. " 

 "A good succession of blackberries for a family plan- 

 tation is, Lucretia dewberry. Early Har- 

 Blackberries. vest, Kittatinny (with winterprotection)i 

 Snyder, Taylor. For market. Early 

 Harvest, Wilson or Wilson Jr. (with winter protection), 

 Snyder, Taylor." 



"The following varieties of currants will constitute 

 a satisfactory selection for home or domestic uses ; White 

 Dutch, although slightly deficient in vigor, is the mildest 

 and richest flavored, and, at the same time, the most 

 beautiful of currants. It is abundantly productive. 

 Red Dutch, although slightly smaller in berry than 



Cherry, Versaillaise or Fay, is longerthan these in bunch, 

 at least equally productive, while it is 

 decidedly superior in flavor. It is gen- Currants for 

 erally recognized as the best of the red Michigan, 

 currants. Victoria is slightly later and 

 more acid than Red Dutch, and rivals it in productive- 

 ness. In localities in which the twig borer is trouble- 

 some, this may very properly be substituted for Red 

 Dutch, even for a home plantation. Lee is a desirable 

 black currant for the home plat, when fruit of this spe- 

 cies is desired for culinary or other purposes. 



"For Commercial Plantations . — Cherry, Versaillaise or 

 Fay will, either of them, yield good returns of large 

 sized, attractive looking fruit, with possibly slight, un- 

 determined differences of yield. As in the case of home 

 plantations, the Victoria, on account of its comparative 

 exemption from the depredations of the borer, will be 

 found more profitable in infested localities. Crandall, 

 a recent novelty, has been represented to be a hybrid 

 between the native [Ribes attreitm) and the Cherry cur- 

 rant {R. riibrum), but neither the foliage, bloom nor 

 fruit affords the slightest indication of such hybridiza- 

 tion. Among the plants thus disseminated, wide differ- 

 ences exist in habit of growth, as well as in size, quality 

 and quantity of fruit, the cause of which is charged to 

 be that the plants disseminated are the product of a 

 batch of seedlings, and not, as was first claimed, of a 

 single selected plant. Its value as a useful fruit is yet 

 undetermined. 



"The European varieties of gooseberries only prove 

 reliable in specially favorable locations, or with special 

 treatment. For general planting, whether family or 

 market purposes, only those usually supposed to be of 

 native parentage can be safely relied on. Houghton is 

 the oldest of these, and although the fruit lacks size, 

 and the plant is of straggling habit, it is so thoroughly 

 hardy, vigorous and productive, and the quality so satis- 

 factory that it may well, as it does, hold a leading place, 

 even in a list for home use. Smith, though the least 

 vigorous of the so-called natives, is yet 

 a healthy though moderate grower, and Varieties of 

 withal, very productive. Its fruit is Gooseberrries. 

 the largest of the class, as well as of 

 superior quality. With liberal culture and judicious 

 pruning, it will very surely prove eminently satisfactory, 

 whether for family or commercial planting. Downing, 

 though scarcely equaling the Smith in either size or 

 quality, is yet so sturdy and vigorous, and withal so 

 productive, and the fruit so large and even sized, that 

 it is very generally preferred for commercial planting. 

 Industry is an imported variety of Ribes grossutaria, 

 which has been considerably disseminated as being less 

 liable to mildew than others of its species, but several 

 seasons' experience with it at this place fail to warrant 

 such claim. " 



" From the experience and observation of this as well 

 as previous years, the following lists are suggested for 

 the consideration of plants of this fruit. To those who 

 prize high quality, even with the penalty of somewhat 



