This section is from the book "The American Garden Vol. XI", by L. H. Bailey. Also available from Amazon: American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants.
Revised notes of the Pears, Cherries, Plums, Apricots, Peaches [also Apples], Ornamental Trees, Forest Trees and Shrubs, which have been tested on the College grounds and sent out for trial during the past ten years. By J. L. Budd.
Pp. 32. This pamphlet, which must not be confounded with the bulletins of the experiment station, is a sort of manual of the hardier and better fruits, especially Russian, of the northwest. General notes upon the care and management of the different fruits are also given. The Russian mulberry has disappointed Professor Budd, and he is no longer propagating it for distribution. The Chinese peach imported by the College has proved hardier than the common peaches, and the author is confident that "they will prove valuable on the northern borders of the peach belt." Of dwarf juneberries he reports as follows : " During the past eight years we have been experimenting with twelve varieties of dwarf juneberry. All of them have proved heavy bearers of fruit fully as good in quality, to my taste, as the swamp huckleberry. But the Osage, Green County, Alpina and a variety imported from Moscow, have proved most satisfactory in bearing and the largest and best in fruit; hence we are sending them out for trial.
When this fruit is planted by the acre or half-acre, the crop does not seem to be materially lessened by the birds ; but a few trial bushes are cleaned as fast as the berries ripen, unless covered".
 
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