RIU'ORT OF MR. S. A. liKDFORD 



393 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



season produced a sufficient crop of fruit to warrant comparisons. Just as the fruit 

 commenced to ripen the currant worm appeared and threatened to defoliate the bushfs, 

 but a timely application of white hellebore, one or two ounces to a pailful of water, 

 applied with a spray pump, quickly stopped their depredations, and no serious dam- 

 age resulted. Following will be found the names of the varieties under test, toge- 

 thtr with notes on the same : — 



CLUKAXTS, 1904. 



V;vriot}'. 



White Imperial 



Climax 



Larf^e White. 



Dctiance 



Houghton Castle 



(liant Red 



Verrier'.s Wliite 



White (irape 



White Kaiser 



Mattie 



White Cherry 



Star 



I'lagle.. 



Black Grape 



lilack English 



Kentish Hero 



Merveille de Gironde. 



Stirling 



London Ked 



Lfiv 



Colour. 



White. 



Red. 



White. 



Black . 

 t White. 

 151 ack . 



SWIS 



Dominion 



Red . . 

 Black 



Beautj[ 



Baldwin's Black 



Winona 



Standard 



Kthel 



O.xford 



Brandenburg Black 



Wilder ReJ... 



White Dutch White. 



Eclipse Black 



< )rton 



Prince of Wales 



Stewart 



Gewohnliclie 



Clipper 



I'ercy 



North Star Red . 



Moore's Seedling 



Cumber 



Fertile D' Angers 



Simcoe Red 



Pomona 



Prince Albert 



Early Scarlet 



I'rauendorfer 



Ked Grape 



Long Bunch Holland . . 



Rankin's Re-d I n . . 



Red Dutch ! „ . . 



La Condi' I n . . 



Fay's Prolific | ■- . 



New Red Dutch I n . . 



Admirable White 



Goliath [Red . 



Versailles I ■• . . 



Flavour. 



■Slightly acid . 

 Sweet 



Length 



ot 

 Spike. 



Fairly sweet. . . 



Very fine 



Slightly acid. . . 



Sweet 



II thin skin. 



Fairly sweet and juicy, tliickish skin. 

 Sub-acid and juicj', thick .skin. ....... 



Fairly sweet and dry, thin skin . . . . 



II juicy, thin .skin 



.Sub-acid and juicy, thicki.sh skin. . . . 



II II thin skin 



Sweet and juicy, thin skin .... 



Sub-acid, not juicy ; skin moderattly 



thick ... ".;... ". 



Sweet and juicy, thickish skin 



Sub-acid and juicy, thick skin 



Sweet and dr}% tiiin skin 



II thick skin 



Fairly sweet and juicy, thin skin 



Sweec and juicy, thin skin 



II II tliickish skin 



Fairly sweet 



In. 



n 



2 



2.i 



2 



2i 



2i 



3' 



2i 



'4 



2 

 2i 



2 



jSweet, thin skin 



Sweet and juicy, thin skin 



Fairly sweet and juicy, thin .<kin. 



Slightly acid, tliin skin. . 



Fairly sweet and drj', thin skin . . 



Sweet and juicy, thick skin. 



Extremely acid. . . 

 Sub-acid and juicy. 



Acid and juicy 



Sweet and juicy. . . . 



2i 

 2i 



1 Sweet and dry. . 

 Slightly acid. . . . 

 .Sweet and juicy. 



2k 



n 



2 



2i 



3" 



2 



2.i 



2 



2 



2 



2 



Fruit on 

 Spike. 



Weight 



from 



one Tree. 



Thick! vset 



Thinly . . 

 Thicklvset 



Thicklyset 

 riiinlv " . 



Thinly set 



Tliicklyset 



Tliinly set 

 Thicklyset 

 Thinly set 



Thickly.set 



Thinly set 

 Thicklyset 



Lbs. 



ft 



\i 



3.1 

 V.-. 



2i 



n 



u 

 n 



Ik 



2A 



u 



li 



u 



li 



li 



1^ 



u 



ll^fi 



Id 



2i 

 23 

 23 

 l| 

 3| 



2 



ll^ 

 Vh 

 U 



1} 

 U 

 3 



1| 



2|: 

 2;: 

 \. 

 2 



