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EXrEEIMElsTAL FARMS 



2-3 EDWARD VII., A. 1903 



GARDEN PEASE. 



Eighty-five varieties of garden pease were grown this year. The soil was a clay 

 loam, and the previous crop was strawberries. No manure Avas given. The pease were 

 sown in rows 3 feet apart, and the seed dropped li inches apart in the row. Each plot 

 was one row 66 feet long. One-half of each plot was pulled when fit to use green, and 

 the quantity of green pease with pods from that half plot noted. The other half was 

 allowed to ripen seed. The following table gives ten of those varieties which we con- 

 sider the best. The variety Alaska is one of the earliest green pease grown, and is per 

 haps the best early one. The three large peas King Edward VII, Prosperity and 

 Gradus, are all good, coming in about the same time. King Edward VII a new English 

 pea sent out by Haszard & Moore, Charlottetown, P.E.I., is in our opinion superior to 

 either Prosperity or Gradus. The varieties Gradus and Prosperity are catalogued a,s 

 one by many seedsmen, we have found Prosperity more productive than Gradus. 



Garden Pease — Ten of the best Varieties. 



GARDEN CORN. 



Forty-eight varieties of garden corn were planted May 31 in hills 3 feet apart each 

 way. The soil on which they were grown is a clay loam, and was previously in straw- 

 berries. Manure at the rate of 20 one-horse cart loads per acre was scattered broadcast 

 over this in the spring and the ground ploughed and worked up. The corn was thinned 

 to 4 stalks to a hill. The season was not favourable for corn, and many of the varieties 

 did not mature before killed by frost. 



The Golden Bantam is a variety of yellow corn, good for home use or special mar- 

 ket. It is too small for the general market. It is certainly the most delicious of any 

 com tested. Fuller's Early Yellow is the earliest and best market variety of the other 

 yellow sorts grown. 



