REPORT OF MR. W. S. BLAIR. 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



CHERKIES. 



Forty varieties of cherries are now growing here. They are planted 18 feet apart 

 each way. They have received good cultivation, and the trees generally have made 

 strong growth. Considerable loss has occurred from trees dying the following 

 winter after heavy fruitage. The varieties Dyehouse, Montmorency, Governor Wood, 

 Lieb, Xapoleon, and Coe's Transparent, planted in 1892, have nearly all died in this 

 way. Some varieties have been lost through the bark at the base of the trunk decaying, 

 also from the bark splitting and curling, causing it to separate from the wood. 



Some excellent specimens of the above varieties have been grown. The variety 

 Early Fcichmond has fruited very little. The only insect so far encountered is the 

 pear, or cherry-tree slug (Selandria cerasi), which has not been noticed on the pears, 

 but which each year infests the cherry trees. It is easily destroyed by spraying with 

 Paris green and water — i ounces of the poison to 40 gallons of water, A large number 

 of cherry trees throughout the Maritime Provinces have been killed by this cherry- 

 tree slug, which eats all of the green part of the leaf, after which the tree looks as 

 if it had been scorched by fire. This insect makes its appearance about the middle of 

 June, and should be attended to promptly. 



CHERRIEIS. 



Name of Variety. 



Date 

 of 



Planting. 



Archduke 



Black Eagle 



Bessarabian 



Bellf Magnifique 



Black Heart 



Carnation 



Coe".s Transparent 



Downer's Late Red 



Dyehouse 



Farly Purple Guigne 



English Morello . . 



E:i.rly Richmond 



Griotte Morello 



Governor Wood 



Gruner Glass 



Knight's Early Black . . . 



Lithaur Weichsel 



Lieb 



Late Duke 



Montmorency Ordinaire. . 



Mezel 



May Duke : 



Montmorency 



Napoleon 



Ostheim 



Ohio Beauty 



Orel 



Olivet 



Reine Hortense 



Rockport 



Royal Duke 



Schmidt - . . 



Sparhawk's Honey 



Shadow Amarelle 



Spate Amarelle 



Tradescant's Black Heart 



Vladimir 



Wriipg 



Windsor 



Yellow Spanish 



1807 

 1900 

 1899 

 1895 

 1892 

 1897 

 1892 

 1899 

 1895 

 1900 



1892-93 

 1892 

 1899 



1892-98 

 1895 

 1898 

 1898 

 1898 



1892-97 

 189S 

 1899 



1895 99 



1892-93 

 1900 

 1892 

 1895 



1893-95 

 1892 



1807-99 

 1895 

 1897 

 1897 

 1807 

 1893 

 1895 



1807 98 

 1895 

 1892 



1892-93 

 1892 



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 I 

 2 

 2 

 4 

 7 

 1 

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1 

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1 

 1 

 3 

 4 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 2. 

 2 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 3 

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When fruited and general fruitfuluess. 



2 Strong . 



3 



1 



Fair . . . 

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Fair . . . . 

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It 

 Fair 



Strong. . 



Weak . . 



Strong. . 



II . . 



Fair 



Strong. , 



Fair... 

 11 ... 

 Strong. 

 Fair. . . 

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Fair... 

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 Fair . . . 



1899-1900, abundant. 



1894-95-97-98 and 1900, abundant 

 1895-97-98 and 1900, few. 



189G-97-98-99 and 1900, medium. 

 1898-99 and 1900, medium. 



1900, few. 



1898-1899, medium. 



1896-98 and 1900, abundant. 



1898-99 and 1900, abundant. 

 1895-96-98 and 19J0, abundant. 



1899 and 1900, medium. 

 1899 and 1900, medium. 



1895-96-97-98 and 1900, abundant. 

 1900, abundant. 



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