370 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Following is the list, &c. : — 



Name of Gooseberry. 



Leader 



Companion. . . . 

 Whitesmith . . . 

 Early Sulphur. 

 Bonnie Lass . . . 

 Bobbie 



Governess 



Warrington 



Crown Bob 



Queen Victoria 



Improved Early Hedgehog . 

 Dubbn. 



Lancashire Lad 



Green Overall 



Columbus 



Pitmaston Green Gage 



Red Champagne 



Whinham's Industry 



White Champion 



Industry 



Downing 



Native from Edmonton, N.W.T. 



Planted. 



1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



10 



18 



5 



58 



Living. 



18 

 3 



30 



Dead. 



1 



1 

 10 



28 



Currants. 



The following currants were planted in spring of 1S93, but have not yet borne 

 fruit : — Red, London Red, Versaillaise, Red Dutch, Knight's Early Red, New Red 

 Dutch, White Transparent, La Fertile, La Conde and La Hative — Black — Prince of 

 Wales, Ogden's Black and Baldwin, Dakota Tree Currant. 



Blackberries and Raspberries 



The following varieties were planted in spring of 1893 : — 50 Stone's Hardy Black- 

 berry, 50 Shaffer's Colossal, 50 Crimson Beauty, 50 Ohio, and 2 Blackcaps from 

 Edmonton, N.W.T. All are dead except 4 Shaffer's Colossal, 8 Ohio and 1 Black Cap 

 from Edmonton. 



Strawberries. 



The following were planted in 1893: — 24 Parker Earle, 24 Windsor Chief, 24 

 Pine Apple and 24 New Dominion. All were badly winter killed in 1893 and 

 remainder died during 1894. 



Small Fruit Crop, 1894. 



The crop of small-fruits on the Experimental Farm has, on the whole, been very 

 poor the past season. 



Currants, Red, White and Black produced abundantly, but the fruit was very much 

 smaller than usual on account of the dry weather. Raspberries promised extra well 



