New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 108 
Notes oN BEARING VARIETIES.* 
The varieties of the larger fruits (including the grapes), in the 
latter list which are marked with a star, bore more or less fruits 
the past season. 
The Apple. 
The apples were, with a few exceptions, top-grafted on Baldwit 
stocks in the spring of 1883. Unfortunately for the trees, the 
soil is in poor condition, having been in grass ever since the 
spring of 1883, and a crop of hay has been removed 
each summer, while very little fertilizer has been applied. The 
trees almost all blossomed well last spring, but a very luxuriant 
growth of grass was removed in June, and but a small part of the 
fruits matured. The Jersey Sweeting, Dominie, Rome Beauty, Tuft’s 
and Antonooskoe bore a fine crop for the size of the trees; the 
Red Astrachan, Keswick Codlin, Primate, Ben Davis, Rawle’s 
Janet, Roxbury Russet, Dumelow’s Seedling, Small’s Admirable, 
and Groskoe Salenke Gruner, bore a fair crop; others marked as 
having borne, yielded but a few specimens each. Among the 
crabs, the Hyslop’s, Large Red Siberian and Transcendent bore 
well, the Coral and Oblong bore a small crop, while the Whitney’s 
Seedling Siberian yielded but a few specimens. 
The Pear. 
The five pear trees marked as having borne fruit were set in the 
spring of 1884. Of these, the Henri Desportes and Jules Bivort 
bore a large crop for the size of the trees, the Maurice Desportes 
bore a fair crop, while the other two yielded a few specimens each. 
The fruit of the Henri Desportes was medium to large, 
greenish yellow, a little russet about the calyx, with numerous 
minute brown dots, and (using Mr. Downing’s terms) obovate 
obtuse pyriform; cavity small, open, a little one-sided; calyx 
small and open, in a deep and rather narrow furrowed basin; 
flesh whitish, decidedly coarse-grained, but sweet and pleasant; 
ripe about September 20. 
That of the Jules Bivort was of medium size; yellowish green, 
with some patches of russet and a blush toward the sun; thickly 


*For data in relation to the small fruits, see Report of the Assistant 
Horticulturist. 
