REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURAL 
DEPARTMENT. 
DISTRIBUTION OF STATION STRAWBERRIES 
AND RASPBERRIES.* 
USPaHMEDRICK Anpi@siMy LAYLOR, 
LN DRODUG DLO: 
The New York Agricultural Experiment Station has four new 
varieties of red raspberries and three new varieties of strawberries 
for distribution during the spring of 1908. These varieties are the 
incidental outcome of experimental work in plant breeding. They 
have been grown and compared with practically all of the standard 
sorts and novelties of their kind and are equal to or superior to all 
other red raspberries and strawberries grown on the Station grounds 
in one or more respects. The distribution of these varieties is 
undertaken that we may ascertain their value and adaptability in 
the different fruit regions of New York. We hope, too, by sending 
out these plants, and through the account of their origin herewith 
given, to stimulate the interest of fruit-growers in plant breeding 
and to promote local experimentation with varieties of fruit. 
The breeding of fruits and vegetables is becoming the most 
prominent feature of the work of the Horticultural Department of 
this Station. Since the objects and methods of plant breeding are 
not well understood by fruit-growers, or the public, a few explana- 
tory statements regarding such work in horticulture at this Station 
are in place. 
For a quarter of a century this Station has been attempting the 
improvement of horticultural plants. Several new vegetables and 
*A reprint of Bulletin No. 208. 
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