[229] U. S. D. A. Condition of Growing Crops August. 1887.

[230] Ibid.

[231] N. Y. Farmer and Hort. Repository 9. 1831.

[232] Yoemans, John L. Rpt. of U. S. Com. of Patents 166. 1852.

[233] Conn. Bd. Agr. Rpt. 169. 1867.

[234] Ibid. 173.

[235] Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. Pt. 1:140. 1882.

[236] Houghton Farm Exp. Dept. Ser. 3. No. 2:27. 1882.

[237] Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. 212. 1854.

[238] Rpt. U. S. Com. Patents 369. 1851.