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Show Fruits And Trees, "We have received a copy, of bulletin No. 37 of the Utah Experiment station. It treats on "Fruits and Fruit Trees, Ornamental, Forest and Shade Trees." Experiments with different varieties of strawberries, grapes, peaches, apricots, cherries, plums, pears, apples. It also contains a short chapter on "Orchard Culture," and one on "Ornamental, Forest and Shade Trees." The bulletin is Bummed up as follows : 1. Parker Earle, Sharpless and Thompson's .No. 7, are recommended as promising strawberries. 2. The following varieties of grapes are recommended for trial: Concord, Delaware, Early Victor and Nassasoit, the Early Victor heirg specially recommended recom-mended for places subject to early j freezep. 3. Ony the peaches generally classed as early or mid-season should be planted in Cache county and localities local-ities with a similar climate. 4. Russian apricots 'are specially recommended re-commended where the larger kindB w'll not thrive on account of severe winters. 5. Sour cherries, such as Mt. Large and Early Richmond, should be planted where the sweet cherry does not thrive. 6 Sowing lucern, timothy, or clover in a young orchard should be discouraged. discour-aged. 7. Popular trees arc Shown to be the most promising for general forestry purposes. 8 The growing of sjme of the hardwood hard-wood trees. such as Black and White Walnuts and Ash, can probably be made profitable. This bulletin should be studied by the horticulturists of the territory. |