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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5-6 EDWARD VII., A. 1906 



planted four feet apart each way and five plants of each variety were used. The soil 

 was a light sandy loam. The soil was kept cultivated until the plants covered the 

 ground. The plants were not pruned or trained in any way in the test of varieties. 



Tomatoes — Twelve Best Yielding Varieties, 1905. 



Name of Variety. 



Bright aad Early 



King Humbert 



Nolte's Earliest (C.E.F.) 



Thorburn's Earliest 



Nolte's Earliest 



Bond's Early Minnesota . 



Dominion Day 



Chalk's Early Jewel 



The Marvel 



Democrat 



Freedom 



Frogmore Selected 



*Pparks' Earliana(C.E.F) 





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.2,586 6 



2,722, 8 



5,853 6 



1,089 . . 



3,075 6 



1,633 8 



7,214 10 



4,350 . . 



1,497 



1,033 



1,301 



4,764 6 



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Remarks. 



Below medium size, regular, 



smooth, scarlet. 

 Below medium size, pear shaped, 



scarlet. 

 Medium size, wrinkled, scarlet. 



Medium size, almost smooth, 



scarlet. 

 Medium size, wrinkled, scarlet. 



Below medium size, smooth, 



regular, purplish pink. 

 Medium size, wrinkled, scarlet. 



Medium size, smooth, regular, 

 scarlet. 



Medium size, smooth, very regu- 

 lar, scarlet, handsome. 



Above medium size, smtroth, 

 purplish pink. 



Below medium to medium size, 

 regular, smooth, scarlet. 



Below medium size, smooth, 

 scarlet. 



Medium size, smooth, scarlet. 



Tomatoes — Six Earliest Varieties, 1905. 



Sparks' Earliana (C.E.F) 

 Maule's Earliest . . . 

 Money Maker ... . 



Sparks' Earliana 



Early Ruby 



Quicksure 



Conquercr 



10,073 4 



5,717 4 



3,811 8 



3,811 8 



3,075 6 



2,900 11 



2,178 . . 



Medium size, smooth, scarlet. 



Medium size,smooth to wrinkled, 



scarlet. 

 Medium size, wrinkled, scarlet. 



Medium size, smooth, scarlet. 



Medium size, smooth to wrinkled, 



scarlet. 

 Medium size, wrinkled, scarlet. 



Medium size, almost smooth 

 scarlet. 



*NoTK. — Imported seed of Sparks' Earliana yielded 39 lbs. ripe fruit of which only 7 lbs. maturtd, by 

 Aug. 10. 



TOMATOES— EXPERIMENTS IN PRUNING. 



In the annual report for 1904, the results of an experiment in a certain method of 

 pruning tomato plants were published. The experiment was continued during the past 

 season. The seed was sown on March 10, and the plants pricked out on March 30; and 

 transplanted again into strawberry boxes on April 19. As soon C3 the plants in the hot- 



