REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST 



119 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



from Canada or tiie United States. Our season is apparently too short for most of 

 the varieties from Great Britain. Some of the new varieties were tested in the uni- 

 form test plots, but the following 44 sorts were grown in smaller plots. Of these, three 

 were new strains of old varieties obtained from the Ontario Agricultural College, 

 Ouelph. 



POTATOES: — ^Yields from Smaller Plots. 



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 44 



Name of Variety. 



Harris Snowball 



Snider Best Early 



L. A.. Sovereign, Round Plains, Man. 



Merrill 



Early Pride 



Hard to Beat 



Potentate 



Early May 



Woltman 



Star ot the East 



Fan tail Rose 



Pearl of Savoy (O. A. 0.) 



Empire State (O. A. C.) 



Wee MacGregor 



White Mammoth 



Early Trumbull . 



Early Bird 



Uncle Gideon's Quick Lunch , . . 



Naught Six 



Early Excelsior 



Washington 



Noroton Beauty 



Million Dollar 



American Wonder (O . A . C . ) 



New Reliance 



Standard 



Burpee's Extra Early (Burpee) 



Babbit. 



New Climax 



Canadian Red 



Sutton's Sion House 



Dewey 



The Scot 



Duke of York 



Early Hero 



Vicktor 



Peacemaker , 



Eightyfold 



Ninetyfold 



Snowdrop 



Pride of Tonbridge 



Sir John Llewellyn 



Sharpe's Victor 



Myatt's Ashleaf 



Number 



of Sets 



Planted. 



8 



8 



4 



8 



33 



16 



16 



16 



33 



8 



33 



16 



16 



33 



16 



16 



8 



8 



16 



16 



16 



8 



16 



16 



16 



16 



33 



8 



16 



16 



16 



16 



12 



16 



16 



16 



16 



33 



16 



33 



33 



33 



33 



33 



Total Yield 

 per Acre. 



Bush. Lbs. 



562 

 544 

 508 

 526 

 475 

 471 

 453 

 435 

 431 

 417 

 413 

 381 

 381 

 378 

 3(i3 

 363 

 363 

 363 

 363 

 353 

 353 

 326 

 326 

 326 

 317 

 299 

 295 

 290 

 272 

 271 

 254 

 245 

 242 

 199 

 181 

 163 

 163 

 136 

 136 

 114 

 105 

 88 

 70 

 52 



39 

 30 

 12 

 21 

 12 

 53 

 45 

 36 

 12 

 27 

 36 

 9 

 8 

 24 



55 

 55 

 42 

 41 

 32 

 37 

 28 

 12 

 24 

 14 

 45 

 6 

 1 



39 

 30 

 21 

 21 

 24 

 7 

 24 

 36 



24 



43 



Yield 



per Acre 



Marketable . 



Bush . Lbs . 



544 

 490 

 471 

 508 

 378 

 381 

 381 

 363 

 352 

 399 

 343 

 344 

 299 

 343 

 308 

 326 

 326 

 290 

 272 

 335 

 317 

 290 

 317 

 299 

 254 

 245 

 246 

 217 

 190 

 235 

 199 

 217 

 193 

 145 

 145 

 145 

 127 

 114 

 90 

 70 

 79 

 61 



30 



3 



54 



12 



24 



9 



9 



18 

 12 

 51 

 28 

 12 

 33 

 42 

 42 

 24 

 15 

 46 

 37 

 24 

 37 

 19 

 6 

 1 

 24 

 48 

 34 

 27 

 39 

 48 

 36 

 12 

 12 

 12 

 3 

 24 

 45 

 24 

 12 

 36 



Yield 

 per Acre 

 Un- 

 marketable. 



Bush. Lba. 



18 

 54 

 36 

 18 

 96 

 90 

 72 

 72 

 79 

 18 

 70 

 36 

 81 

 35 

 54 

 36 

 36 

 72 

 90 

 18 

 36 

 36 

 9 

 27 

 63 

 54 

 52 

 72 

 81 

 36 

 54 

 27 

 48 

 54 

 36 

 18 

 36 

 22 

 45 

 44 

 26 

 26 

 70 

 52 



9 



27 

 18 



9 

 48 

 45 

 36 

 36 

 12 



9 

 24 

 18 

 48 

 12 

 27 

 18 

 18 

 36 

 45 



9 

 18 

 18 



4 

 13 

 31 

 27 

 48 

 36 

 40 

 18 

 27 

 13 

 24 

 27 

 18 



9 

 18 



12 



21 

 24 

 24 



48 



POTATOES— TEST OF EESISTANCE TO BLIGHT. 



An experiment was conducted this year to determine which varieties of potatoes 

 were freest from Hight, and which of those freest from blight would prove most pro- 

 ductive. The potatoes were planted side by side on May 27 in sandy loam soil, 33 sets 

 of each kind being used. The plants were sprayed with Paris green to protect them 

 from the potato beetle, but no Bordeaux mixture was used. Level cultivation was 

 adopted. The kinds planted were those which in previous years had shown themselves 

 freest from blight, but a few less resistant varieties were used with the object of giving 

 the disease a foothold. Thirty-two varieties were planted. The Holborn Abundance, 



