340 REPORT OF THE ACTING POMOLOGIST OF THE 
injury to fruit by disease or insects, it may become popular in 
the markets as a canning pear. And this, we think, is all that can 
be expected, as it seems unwise to place a pear of such qualities 
on sale as a dessert fruit. 
The following varieties of pears have been killed by the pear 
blight: André Desportes, Beurre de l’Assumption, Duhamel du 
Moncean, Henri Desportes, Hoosic Madame André Leroy, Presi- 
dent Mas and St. Crispin. 
PEACHES AND APRICOTS. 
The peach trees have made a very vigorous growth during the 
season of 1889, but of the varieties under comparative test none 
have borne fruit. Of the apricots a number of the varieties were 
found to be partially dead in the spring, the bark and wood was 
blackened, the greater discoloration showing in the north and 
west sides of the trees. They were carefully examined for traces 
of the borer, but as none could be found nor signs of any other 
injuries that could have caused their death, it was attributed to 
the effects of the winter. There is one circumstance in the life of 
the trees that would seem to make this possible even in a winter 
as mild as that of 1888. The ground had been heavily manured 
with farm-yard manure, stimulating the trees to an abnormal 
erowth, and when winter set in, the young wood was not suf- 
ficiently hardened to withstand the winter. The following varieties 
have been killed as described above: 
De Coulange. Canino Grosso. 65 
Black. Hemskirke. 
Breda. Peach. 
Early Golden. Red Muscatine. 
Kaisha. ' Shipleys. 
Moorpark. Tuskey. 
Orange. 
Some of the varieties left blossomed but failed to set fruit. 
GRAPES. 
The vines reported on were set from 1882 to 1887. The crop of 
fruit the present season has been small in all cases. No vine on 
the Station grounds has borne a full crop, some old varieties that 
are known to be productive not bearing at all, or if so, very 
imperfect fruit. This was mainly due to the unfavorable season, 
