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AMERICAN POMOEOGICAE SOCIETY 
AS TO OTHER FRUITS. 
Cherries: — I may say we have for several years matured several varieties 
of Sour Cherries at the Sitka Experiment Station. The Early Richmond 
has in this respect been the best, but the English Morello, the Dyehouse 
and one or two others have fruited. 
Some sweet cherry trees are grown at Sitka, and always blossom 
profusely, but they have never matured any fruit. 
Plums: — We have in our test orchard a number of varieties of plums, 
selected from among those that do well in the Middle West and Northern 
States, but not one of them gives any promise of being of value. 
There is a green gage plum tree in one of the gardens at Sitka, which 
sets fruit every year, but the fruit has never been more than half grown 
when killed by cold weather. We have a number of the hybrids produced 
by Professor Hansen growing at the Station, but none of them promise well. 
My opinion is that the climate is too wet for the trees; and the summers 
not warm enough for the fruit to mature, even if they should set it. 
Pears: — Pears are an absolute failure. They cannot be grown in Alaska. 
Grapes: — The same may be said of the vine. 
Bush-Fruits: — Currants, raspberries and gooseberries are at home in 
the Coast Region of Alaska. Red currants grow wild all over Alaska, 
clear to the Arctic Circle. Raspberries grow wild in the Interior, and 
there is a related species, called the salmon berry, which grows wild in 
the Coast Region. I have never seen better raspberries than we have grown 
at the Sitka Experiment Station, the Cuthbert variety being by far the best. 
The blackberry and the blackcap raspberry are failures. Gooseberries of all 
varieties can be grown in the Coast Region. There are at least five species 
of Vaccinium indigenous to Alaska which produce valuable berries, and there 
is not the slightest doubt, in my opinion, but that from them other valuable 
varieties can be developed. There are also many species of Rubus other 
than the raspberry, which thrive clear up to the Arctic Circle and beyond, 
which it would seem have latent possibilities for the development of useful 
fruits. 
From all of this it will appear that Alaska has as yet no pomological 
resources, but that there are potentialities in the native fruits which can 
be developed by crossing with established varieties from more southerly 
regions. 
THE STATUS OF POMOLOGY IN THE WEST INDIES. 
H. C. Henricksen, British West Indies. 
In discussing this subject I have chosen the broader interpretation of 
the term. I shall try to confine myself as much as possible to fruit grow- 
ing, but I may at times mention vegetables also and I may also briefly 
mention the South American countries adjacent to the West Indian Islands. 
