3i EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



6-7 EDWARD VIU A. 1907 

 PEAES. 



Pears have not proven a success at Ottawa. Most of tlie named varieties on the 

 market in this country have been tested, but none of the better kinds have survived. 

 The Flemish {Beauty) has proved the hardiest good pear, but the tre3 blights and it d .ei 

 not live long at Ottawa. At Oka, further down the Ottawa, it has done well, and also 

 succeeds fairly well at Montreal. Some of the Russian varieties are very hardy, but are 

 inferior in quality and very subject to blight. Seedling pears are being grown in the 

 hope of getting some hardier sorts. 



The following list of pears, recommended in Bulletin No. 147, of the Ontario De- 

 partment of Agriculture, by the Board of Control of the Ontario Fruit Experiment 

 Stations, of which the writer is a member, is given as the best list for Ontario where 

 pears succeed. It is only in the mildest parts of the province of Quebec where pears 

 are profitably grown, and Flemish is the most desirable variety to plant. 



VARIETIES OF PEARS RECOMMENDED FOE THE PRO\aNCE OF ONTARIO. 



Commercial. — Giffard, Clapp, Bartlett, Boussock, Flemish, Howell, Louise, 

 Duchess, Bosc, Clairgeau, Anjou, Kieffer. 



Domestic. — Summer Doyenne, GifFard, Bartlett, Flemish, Sheldon, Seckel, Bosc, 

 Anjou, Lawrence, Josephine, Winter Nelis. 



PEACHES. 



Peaches and apricots have both been tested at the Experimental Farm, but neither 

 have been found hardy enough. The peach being tender both in wood and fruit bud, 

 and the apricot in fruit bud, and to some extent in the wood. The so-called Russian 

 apricots were not found to be sufficiently hardy. Seedling peaches produced at the nor- 

 thern limit of the production of this fruit are being tested. 



Peach culture in Ontario was looked into very thoroughly by Mr. John 'Craig when 

 horticulturist, and a biilletin was published on this subject in 1898. The list of 

 varieties recommended in that bulletin needs to be changed somewhat as newer kinds 

 have been more thoroughly tested since that time. The following is the list recom- 

 mended and published by the Board of Control of the Ontario Fruit Experiment 

 Stations, which the writer considers the best list for Ontario : — 



Commercial. — Sneed, Alexander, Hynes, St. John, Mountain Rose, Early Crawford, 

 Champion, Brigdon, Fitzgerald. Reeves, Elberta, Oldmixon, Stevens, Smock. 



Domestic. — Hynes, St. John, Early Crawford, Oldmixon, Longhurst, Stevens. 



CHERRIES. 



Cherries have been thoroughly tested at Ottawa and after nineteen years' experi- 

 enoe no cultivated variety of cherry has been found which is profitable to grow at Ot- 

 tawa. The Morello cherries are the hardiest, but as a rule the fruit buds of these are 

 winter killed. The same fact is observed 'with cherries as with European plums, 

 namely, ihat when the air is comparatively moist even if the temperature is low, 

 cherries will succeed better than they do where the air is dry and cold. Thus, cherries 

 succeed much better along the lower St. Lawrence than they do at Ottawa. 



Among cherries introduced from Russia are some of the hardiest kinds. Orel 25, 

 Vladimir, Minnesota Ostheim, and Cerise d'Ostheim are the four hardiest. 



In 1890 the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association received a number of seedling 

 cherry trees from Russia under the name of Ivoslov Morello. Twenty-one of these were 

 sent to the Central Experimental Farm for test. They were slow in coming into bear- 



