REPORT OF MR. THOMAS A. SHARPE 



421 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Besides the above the following varieties have been tested, all of which are, with 

 US, lacking in some one or more desirable qualities. Battler's Giant, Paragon, Charles, 

 Hornet, Carter's Prolific, Belle de Fontenay, Baumforth's Seedling, Muskingum, 

 Turner, Franoonia, Hudson River Antwerp, Thompson, White Antwerp, Columbia, 

 Arnold's Hybrid, Red Herrenhauser, Sugar of Metz, Carleton, Empire, Sharpe, Muriel, 

 Craig, Autumn, Surprise, Kn'e\'its Giant, La Mercier, Guinea, Garnet, Mary, Peircy, 

 Fastolf. Marlboro, Clarke, Heebner, Norwich Wonder, King, Chili, Garfield, Shaffer's 

 Colossal, Queen Victoria, Sir John, Cariboo, Col. Wilder, Brinckle's Orange, Goliath, 

 Lizzie, Miller, Minnie, Beehive, Spineless Yellow, Ye'llow Antwerp, Malta, Bamet, 

 Lady Anne, Nonpareil, Billard's Perpetual, Prince of Wales, Champion, Crimson 

 Beauty and Hansel. 



BLACK CAP RASPBERRIES. 



Last season was very trying for the Black Cap raspberries. From the tim^ that 

 they were two-thirds grown until past their ripening, the weather was so hot and dry 

 that the berries dried on the canes and of the 19 varieties here under trial, not one 

 was up to the usual size or quality or even worth picking. 



METEOROLOGICAL RECORD. 



Date of Highest 

 Temperature. 



1908. 



April 29 



May 12 



June 30 



July 21 



August 18. . . . 

 September 5 . 



October 7 



November 12 

 December 16 . 



1909. 



January 27. . 

 February 21. 

 March 25 



Totals . 



3 



a, 

 S 



D 



73 

 70 

 91 

 92 

 96 

 79 

 74 

 57 

 56 



46 

 50 

 71 



Date of Lowest 

 Temperature. 



April 21 & 28. 



May 30 



June 13 



July 21 



August 31 



September 29. 

 October 13. . . . 

 November 27. 

 December G . . 



•January 8. 

 Feliruary 9. 

 March 19. . 



c3 



a, 





33 

 35 

 41 

 42 

 42 

 36 

 32 

 32 

 20 



15 

 30 



Rain- 

 fall 



Inche 



■60 

 •66 

 •28 

 ■60 

 •24 

 •90 

 •93 

 •45 

 •42 



3-28 

 538 

 23 



42-77 



Sno'w- 

 fall. 



Inches. 



115 



125 



Sunshine. 



1,444 



48 



Total rainfall for year ending March 31, ir09 42 77 



Total snow fall reduced to rainfall 1 25 



Total precipitation 44 02 



Total precipitation for year ending March 31, 1908 55 40 



I have the honour to be, sir. 



Your obedient servant, 



TIIOS. A. SHARPE, 



Superintendent. 



