. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. :rom Southern California to Brit- sh Columbia, Canada. His intensive study of the in- leritance of certain fruit and 'oliage characters in peach trees :rom 1924 ito 1949 led to the start if a chromosome maip for peaches. Oater he became well known for lis research with small fruit. He las published res'earch on the jropagation, nutrition and pru- ling of cultivated blueberries, and vinter hardiness of raspberries. Ms research results were instru;- nental in obtaining grower ac- ;eptaince of virus-free strawberry jlants, soil fumiga
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. :rom Southern California to Brit- sh Columbia, Canada. His intensive study of the in- leritance of certain fruit and 'oliage characters in peach trees :rom 1924 ito 1949 led to the start if a chromosome maip for peaches. Oater he became well known for lis research with small fruit. He las published res'earch on the jropagation, nutrition and pru- ling of cultivated blueberries, and vinter hardiness of raspberries. Ms research results were instru;- nental in obtaining grower ac- ;eptaince of virus-free strawberry jlants, soil fumigation for straw- )erries and chemical weed control n small fruits. Prof. Bailey has jublished over 50 papers in tech- lical journal's and Extension Ser- pce Publications. He holds membership in the *i\merici3n Society for Horticul'- iural Science, Alpha Zeta and Sigma Zi. HOLMES BUILDING 100 ACRE BOG AT VANCOUVER, B. C. He will use the Wisconsin Method Throughout His Operations and Plant Largely to Mc'Farlins Norman V. Holmes, formerly of I^arver, Mass. and now of New A^'estminster ("Vancouver) British I^olumbia, Canada, has severed ill connection with the Big Red >anberry Company of Vancouver md formed a new comi>any of US' own. This spring the new company las been clearing land at the ate of about 3 acres a day, ready or planting 50 acres this coming all, and he hopes to have about 00 acres and to have it all vined )ver in the next two years. The land is just west of Jack Cell's bog and was' part of the Lulu Island Peat Company land. |rhe whole area is perfectly level llmd there is very little growth on t or stumps' to take out. Holmes intends to build the vhole area according to the Wis- pnsin style, that is long narrow beds, and will use Wisconsin nethods pretty much right through, including water picking (water harvesting machines). He says he has to make a more thorough study of the variety problem, but will plant a lot of McFarlins, as these are the only vines
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