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REPORT OF THE ACTING POMOLOGIST.* 
The work reported covers the time between April 1 and Novem- 
ber 1, 1889, and has been for the most part a continuation of that 
already commenced in the testing of new fruits (as outlined in 
Bulletin No. 15 of the Station, sent out in 1888, and referred to in 
the report of the horticulturist for the same year), and work 
tending toward the improvement of the orchards. This, with the 
other routine work performed, has left little time for experimental 
work. | 
The work reported is divided as follows : 
Care and improvement of the orchard. 
Notes on fruits. 
Lists of varieties. 
Spraying the orchards with insecticides. 
Spraying with fungicides. 
Plums eaten by the curculio. 
The aphidex, spraying with clear kerosene and emulsion. 
Seed selection, with notes on vegetation. 
ORCHARDS. 
The apple orchards were thoroughly pruned during the month 
of April. Although more or less pruning has been done in the 
orchards in each year since the establishment of the Station, very 
many superfluous limbs were still left, especially so in the old 
orchard, interfering with the free use of the teams in cutting and 
drawing the hay, and other necessary work with teams. These 
limbs were removed and the tops thinned out to admit the sun 
and air to the fruit. The young orchard has been largely top- 
worked to new varieties and older ones deemed worthy of trial, 
commencing in 1886 and continuing in 1888-89. The tops of 
these were also thinned out, and the cross limbs and those affect- 
ing the symmetry of the trees removed. The trunks of all were 
* G. W. Churchill 
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