Variety Tests of Apples. 
The varieties of apples thus far received at this Station for 
testing have, with few exceptions, been top worked on young 
bearing trees of Baldwin or Rhode Island Greening. In a few 
cases they were top-worked on some other variety and in several 
instances root-grafted or budded trees of the variety to be tested 
were planted. Many old varieties have been admitted to the 
orchards for the sake of comparison with the newer sorts. 
This top-working of varieties received at the Station 
for testing was begun in 18838 and sinc» then has been continued 
at intervals till at the present time there are three hundred and 
ninety-six varieties of applies and twenty-two varieties of erab- 
apples growing in the Station orchards, imaking .a total of four 
hundred and eighteen varieties. Many of the kinds first imtro- 
duced are now bearing from a few fruits to three or four bushels 
per tree. Notes on a few of these varieties are given below. It should 
be remembered that this report does not pretend to make a final 
statement as to the merits of these varieties, but simply shows 
their record thus far at this Station. Undoubtedly in some ljocah- 
ties some of them will do better than they have done here, 
in other places they may not do so well as they have done here. 
As the trees become older, it will be possible to. make mure 
extended reports and to include new features that may Le , 
brought out by the data constantly accumulating in the Station's 
annual records. 
NOTES ON VARIETIES. 
Aovupa-LEAF Reinerts, Peinetie a feuille d’ Acuba — Tn, 1883 
cions of this variety from Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, 
N. Y., were set in a young bearing tree. Five years afterwards 
it bore a few fruits and this seasop (1892) it produced a full erop 
of fine apples. Fruit medium or above, oblong, inclined to conical; 
calyx nearly closed, set in a moderately broad, shallow, corrugated- — 
basin; stem slender, set in a deep cavity; skin smooth, yellow, 
largely covered with deep blush and splashes of red; flesh yellow- a 


