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the tests, the chances of accidental cross-pollination were reduced 
to a minimum. 
After the blossoming season had passed, a record was made to 
show which clusters had set fruit and which had failed to set fruit. 
When the fruit was ripe each cluster under test was rated on the 
scale of 100, according to the percentage of a full cluster which 
was found. <A perfectly formed cluster was rated 100, a half- 
filled cluster was rated 50 and others were rated in a correspond- 
ing manner. 
LOCATION OF THE VINEYARDS. 
The tests were conducted in 1899 in three quite widely sepa- 
rated localities: In the Station vineyards at Geneva; in the vine- 
yards of KE. Smith & Sons at Highlands, on the east bank of 
Seneca lake, near Lodi; in the vineyard of Mr. E. C. Gillett, 
Penn Yan, N. Y. Our acknowledgments are due the gentlemen 
who have consented to allow the experiments to be conducted in— 
their vineyards, and also to Mr. Horace W. Gillett who assisted in 
the work at Penn Yan in a very careful and satisfactory manner. 
The [lighlands vineyards are on soil which is derived largely 
from broken shale. The other vineyards mentioned above are on 
clay loam. 
CROSS-POLLINATION. 
The cross-pollinating was done at Highlands, June 12. At 
Penn Yan it was done June 12, with the exception that Brighton 
and Salem were crossed each upon the other June 13. At the 
Station the work of cross-pollinating was done at convenient times 
during the blooming period from June 10 to 15. 
The cross-pollinating which was done at Highlands was under 
the direction of C. P. Close. The plan there followed was to un- 
cover the cluster which was to receive the pollen. Tho cluster 
selected to supply the pollen was then taken from the bag in 
which it had till this time been kept, and fastened to the first men- 
tioned cluster. Both clusters were then covered with the bag 
