REPORT OF MR. ANGUS MACKAY 329 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



OTHER BULBS. 



50 Chionodoxa gigantea. (Glory of the Snow.) 

 10 Colchicum autumnale. (Meadow Saffron.) 

 50 Galanthus Elwesii. (Giant Snowdrops.) 

 50 Galanthus nivalis. (Snowdrops.) 

 5 Frittillaria Imperialis. 

 10 Leucojum vernum. (Snowflake.) 

 10 Leucojum aestivum. 

 50 Spanish Iris. 

 50 Scilla Sibirica. (Squills.) 

 10 Bulbocodium vernum. 



FEUIT CROP. 



Currants and gooseberries were infested with the Currant Maggot (Epochra 

 Canadensis), and a good deal of the fruit fell before maturing. 



Raspberries and strawberries gave fairly good fruit, the dry July being rather 

 against them. 



In larger fruits, the Siberian varieties of crab-apple were all well loaded with 

 fruit, some of the better sorts having apples of good size. 



The native plum trees were well loaded, and, with one or two exceptions, ripened 

 their fruit. The cross-bred plum ' Aitkin ' gave a heavy crop. 



The winter of 1907-8 and the spring of 1908 proved disastrous to a large number 

 of the cross-bred apple trees, most of the losses being replaced in May by trees sent 

 from Ottawa for the purpose. 



A small orchard of cross-bred plum trees was set out in May last, also some fresh 

 plots of currants, gooseberries azid raspberries. Details of these are as follows: — 



CROSS-BRED APPLE TREES. 



Sent by the Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



20 Jewel. 12 Osman. 10 Columbia. 



20 Josie. 10 Tony. 3 Carleton. 



20 Magnus. 12 Prince. 5 Charles. 



20 Robin. 3 Mecca. 12 Alberta. 



25 Silvia. 10 Pioneer. 10 Norman. 



5 Jewel. 15 Golden. 10 Kent. 



CROSS-BRED PLUM TREES. 



Prom Prof. N. E. Hansen, Experiment Station, Brookings, S.D. 



1 Sapa. 2 Wakapa. 3 Hanska. 



2 Enopa. 4 Yuteka. 4 Wastesa. 

 2 Eyami. 6 Winnipeg. 2 Wabanka. 

 4 Huya. 2 Opata. 1 Skuya. 



2 Assiniboia. 2 Owauka. 4 S. D.'No. 32. 



4 Topa. 6 Tokeya. 



