18 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
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Report of the Horticulturist. 

To the Director of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station: 
S1r:—No part of the salary of the Horticulturist being paid 
from the Station funds, it is not expected that much of his 
time will be directly devoted to experiment work. The ex- 
periments on vegetables are almost wholly in charge of the 
Assistant Horticulturist, and he will report upon them. ‘The 
writer is carrying out a series of experiments started some 
years since to determine the effects of stocks upon different 
varieties, and variety tests on apples as to quality and crop. 
In all of these some results are expected when the crop is har- 
vested, as many of the trial trees are bearing; but nothing 
definite can be reported at this date. The much discussed 
question of how the rot on plum may be controlled by spraying 
is being given special attention in the trial orchard of the Col- 
lege, where many varieties are in full bearing. Some attention 
is being devoted to results of spraying upon the foliage of other 
stone fruits. 
In cooperation with the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington, variety tests of sweet corn and beans are in progress. 
The work is largely the comparison of strains of the same 
variety and the growing of similarly named kinds from different 
seeds to note whether the varieties are not identical. Tests of 
quality will follow later, but here as before results will not be 
known until the close of the season. » | 
Much time each winter is devoted to institute work over the 
state. All questions in connection with fruit growing excite 
much interest. The new ones developed by the effects of the 
extreme winters just passed promise to keep the student in 
horticulture busy; and at no place in New England is there a 
better chance of settling some of them, at least, than in the 
orchards growing upon the College grounds. 
Respectfully submitted, 
A. G. GULLEY. 
