REPORT OF MR. W. S. BLAIR. 



315 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Orchard No. 2. — The trees put out in 1891, 1892 and 1893, in this orchai'd, were 

 planted amongst the stumps. It was found difficult to clean up tho land when set, 

 so further work here was postponed until Lhe field was stumped and worked up. In the 

 spring of 1897 the balance of the orchard was set. In the winter of 1895 a number of 

 the trees in the plantation were girdled so badly by mice tliat they were lost. 



The soil is rather light loam, with a clay subsoil. It was under-drained in 1897. 

 The trees have received complete fertilizer and muriate of potash, at the rate of 200 

 pounds of the former to 100 pounds of the latter per acre, during the past three ycai-s, 

 and this fall the land is being manured with stable manure. The soil is uatui'ally 

 very poor. Buckwheat crops were taken off the land two years in succession, and pease 

 have been sown for the past two years, to plough under as a green manure. 



The trees are each year sprayed with Bordeaux mixture. 



The date of planting, the number of trees growing, their general fruitfulness, 

 character of growth and productiveness is given below. As varieties of fruit, some are 

 found to be improperly named, and two such are not included in this list. Those trees 

 set in 1899 were planted in the fall of the year, all of the other trees have been planted 

 in the spring. 



APPLE ORCHAKD, No. 1. 



Name of Variety. 



Allen's Choice 



Aport 



Ananasnoe 



Anisovka 



Aiiis 



Alexander 



Autumn Strawberry 



Benoni 



Blue Pearmain 



Blackwood . . . . 



Bank's Gravenstein 



Baldwin 



Borovinka 



Bottle Greening 



Boy's Delight 



Buckingham 



Bellflower (Bishop Pippin). 



Blushed CalviUe 



Ben Davis 



Belle de Boskoop 



Canada Baldwin 



Canada Red 



Cooper's Market 



Crimean Bogdanoff 



Carolina Red .June 



Colvert 



Duchess of Oldenburg 



Dominie 



Fameuse 



Flory Belle 



Fallawater 



Golden Reinette 



Golden Ball 



Golden Russet 



Gano 



Golden White 



Gravenstein 



Hibernal 



Haas 



Jonathan 



Keswick Codlin 



1899 

 1889 

 1889 

 1890 

 1890 

 ISUO 

 1895 

 1890 

 1890 

 1889 



1895-98 

 1898 

 1889 

 1891 ' 

 1899 

 1895 



1889-92 

 1895 

 1893 

 1S97 

 1890 

 1S90 

 1895 

 l!-'95 

 1895 



1890-93 



1890-92 

 1895 

 1890 

 1894 

 1899 

 1895 

 1899 



1890-92 

 1898 

 1895 



1889-95 



1894 95 

 18!)0 

 1890 

 1890 



1 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 2 



3 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 3 

 2 



2 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 7 

 1 

 4 

 1 



When fruited and general fruitfulness. 



Strong. 



Weak . 

 Strong. 



Weak . , 

 Fair . . . 

 Strong. 



Weak '. ' 

 Strong. 



I Weak 

 'Fair.. 



i Strong. 

 Fair.. . 



jWeak . 



j Strong. 



1894-96-98-99-1900. Medium. 

 11895-97-99. Medium. 

 1895-97-99 1900. Medium. 

 11894-95-96-97-98-99 1900. Abundant. 

 1894-96-97-99 1900. Few. 



1896-98-99 1900. Medium. 

 1897-99 1900. Few. 

 1894-95-16-97-98-99 1900. Mediiim. 



1894-95-96-97-98-99 1900. Medium. 



1896-98-99 1900. Few. 



1896-97-98-99 1900. Abundant. 



1894-95 96-97-98-99 1900. Medium. 

 1897-99. Few. 



1900. Few. 



1895-97-99 1900. Few. 

 1893-94-95-96-97-98-99 1900. Abundant. 



1894-96-97-98-99 1900. Medium. 



1900. Few. 



1894-95-96-97-98-99 1900. Mediutr. 



1898-99- 1900. Medium. 

 1892-93-94-95-96-97-98-99 1900. Abundant. 

 1895-98 1900. Medium. 

 1895-96-97-98-99 1900. Medium. 



