REPORT OF MR. ANGUS MACKAY 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Seedlings of Cross-tred Apples. 



19 Seedlings of Sparta. 



20 Seedlings of Jewel. 



These were all set out in new plots of ground, being planted 15 feet apart each 

 way, or else being used to fill vacancies in the older orchards. The balance were put in 

 nursery rows till room can be found for them in a plot which is being prepared. 



PLUMS. 



Twelve seedlings of Carstesen plum and one of Aitkin plum were received, and 

 planted in the plum orchard. 



PRUIT CROP. 

 SIBERIAN CRAB (Pyrus haccato). 



The Siberian Crab trees fruited well as usual, but the crop was hardly as heavy as 

 in 1904. 



CROSS-BRED APPLES. 



A few of the Cross-bred apple trees fruited this year, namely, Cavan, No. 19, 

 Aurora, No. 45. The fruit was considerably larger than the Pyrus baccata, but most 

 of the large ones were stolen long before they were ripe. 



Some seedling trees of cross-bred apples also fruited, but in most cases reverted 

 more or less to the original type of Pyrus baccata, and consequently will be discarded, 

 being of no greater value than the baccata. 



