466 ES:PEItIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



Ox-Heart. — Tree a vigorous grower. Fruit large, obtuse, heart-shaped. Skin 

 •dark red. Flesh tender and juicy, with a pleasant flavour. Eipe early in June. 



Spanish Black. — Tree a vigorous grower. Fruit of medium size ; heart-shaped, 

 irregular. Skin dark, glossy, purple. Flesh dark red, tender, juicy, rich and sweet. 

 Eipe middle of June. 



Von der Natte. — Tree a vigorous grower. Fruit medium to large, roundish. 

 Skin glossy red. Flesh red, juicy, sprightly and of pleasant flavour. Eipe late in 

 June. 



Oros Gohet. — Tree a feeble grower. Fiuit above medium size, round and flattened 

 at top and base. Skin bright, glossy red. Flesh yellowish, juicy, slightly acid. Eipe 

 late in June. 



Tradescanfs BlacJc Heart. — Tree a vigorous grower. Fruit large, heart-shaped, 

 with an irregular surface. Skin, glossy black. Flesh firm, moderately juicy, dark red, 

 with a pleasant flavour. Quality good. Eipe late in June. 



PEACHES. 



The peach crop was, with the exception of the Amsden June, almost an entire 

 failure this jear. The trees were carefully spraj'ed with Bordeaux mixture before the 

 buds opened and again twice after the blossoms fell, they were, nevertheless, very badly 

 affected with the curl leaf. The constant rains continuing throughout the spring and 

 €arly summer was favourable for the development of fungous diseases, and most of the 

 peach and nectarine trees were ruined by the curl leaf, as the foliage fell and new 

 leaves formed they in turn became diseased and fell off. 



NECTAEINES. 



These were even greater sufferers than the peach trees. They have never borne any 

 large crops, a few specimens of poor fruit being the most they have ever produced. 



APEICOTS. 



The Acme apricot is the only variety among those tried hei-e that has ever borne 

 more than a few specimens. It is a fairly good apricot and has borae three small 

 crops, but the tree is tender, large limbs dying from time to time, and this year the 

 whole tree died. Nearly all the other varieties of this fruit were affected in the same 

 way, although they did not bear fruit, and quite a collection of seedlings which grew 

 well for a year or two have died piecemeal. The peach, apricot and nectarine are not 

 adapted to exposed locations in this locality. 



MEDLAES. 



All the varieties of this fruit, seven in all, fruited this year. The bloom does not 

 open until late, generally well on in May, and escapes frost and always sets its fruit. 

 Since these trees began fruiting none of them have missed a crop. The variety called 

 Giant is the largest fruited, and the Nottingham the smallest, but the difference is 

 not great, and in other respects there is not much to choose in the quality or merits 

 of the different sorts. 



QUINCES. 



None of the quinces bore fruit this year. Several of the trees blossomed and 

 look healthy, but they do not set fruit. 



