114 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



Season — ■ Per cent. 



August-mid September 27-95 



Mid September-October 30-10 



October-November 23-65 



December-February 8-60 



December-April 9-67 



99-97 

 Wealthy is in season late September, October and November. 



Resemblance to Wealthy, more or less — Per cent. 



In outward appearance 62-22 



In flesh 45-55 



In flavour 1^-44 



No resemblance 22-58 



(Percentage in this case based on 90 seedlings.) 



Marked resemblance to Wealthy — Per cent. 



In appearance 21-11 



In flesh 14-44 



In flavour 3-33 



In appearance and flesh 11-11 



In appearance, flesh and flavour 2-22(*) 



(Percentage in this case based on 90 seedlings.) 



(•Same season as Wealthy 1-11 



Later season than Wealthy 1-11) 



There are some interesting facts brought out in this table. Although Wealthy is 

 said to have been grown from 'cherry crab seed' only 5-37 per cent of the seedlings, 

 or 6 out of the 93 described, was distinctly crablike. The fact that 93J per cent of 

 the seedlings was large enough to be marketable is worthy of note. It is remarkable 

 that not one of the seedlings was entirely green or yellow, all having more or less red. 

 It is interesting to note that over 15 per cent was orange or orange red in colour; In 

 this connection it may be stated that quite a number of the seedlings had the peculiar 

 flavour of Sops of Wine or Haas, which are of this colour, and while the Sops of Wine 

 or Haas were in the same orchard with the Wealthy trees they were a considerable 

 distance away. It will be noticed that over 16 per cent of the apples was sweet, while 

 only one per cent was mildly subacid. There was over 65 per cent of the seedlings 

 above medium and better in quality, which is a remarkably large proportion, we thinlc. 

 Over 23 per cent of the seedlings was about the same season as Wealthy, and over 18 

 per cent later, which is encouraging in the breeding of hardy winter apples. The large 

 proportion of apples which bear more or less resemblance to Wealthy is worthy of 

 note. 



INDIVIDUALITY OP APPLE TREES AS SIIOW^N IN THE ORCHARDS AT THE CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL 



FARM, OTTAWA. 



There is a growing interest in the individuality of plants, and breeders of fruits 

 are now paying considerable attention to this interesting subject. Since the year 1898 

 records have been kept of the yields from each apple tree in the orchards at the Central 

 Experimental Farm. These records show that there has been a marked dift'erence in 

 the yields of trees of the same variety planted in the same year and in about the same 

 kind of soil. In some cases there have been only a few trees of a variety for com- 

 parison, but the difference in yield even between two trees has been very_ marked. 

 There is as yet little data to show whether these characteristics will continue in trees 

 propagated from them, but young trees are now growing at the Experimental Farm 



