120 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7-8 EDWARD VII., A. 1908 



yarieties of apples, 9 of pears, 33 of plums, 13 of cherries, 12 of gooseberries, 10 of 



currants, 8 of raspberries and blackcaps and 7 of strawberries. 



As to apples, we have picked out as good for cultivation in our district and hav- 

 ing a real value, 22 varieties classified here after the results obtained with them: — 



Summer apples. — Hare Pipka, Ked Astrachan, Summer or Early Strawberry 

 and Yellow Transparent. 



Early fall apples. — Grandmother, Peach of Montreal, Transcendent and VvTiitney. 



Late fall apples. — Alexander, Duchess of Oldonburg, Hyslop, !^^ontreal Beauty, 

 "Wolf Kiver, St. Lawrence and Titovka. 



Early v/inter apples. — Fameuse, Mcintosh Red, Wealthy and Winter St. Law- 

 rence. 



Late winter apples. — Ben Davis, English Golden Eusset, Longfield. 



Out of those 22 varieties of apples giving good crops of well mr.tured fruit and 

 being very hardy with us, we have made a selected list of the very best varieties, as 

 being qi:ite commendable. They are: — 



Summer. — Hare Pipka, Summer or Early Strawberry 



Early fall. — Grandmother, Whitney. 



Late fall. — Duchess of Oldenburg, Titovka 



Early winter. — Fameuse, Wealthy. 



Late winter. — English Golden Piusset, Longfield. 



In pear ci:lture, we have, since three j'cars, after having discarded Russian 

 varieties that have proved to give very poor fruit, had good success with the Flemish 

 beauty and the Vermont Jj'^^uty. We entertain great hopes from four varieties bought 

 in Belgium, coming fro::: the Ardennes mountains, having wintered well since three 

 years, including the very severe one of 190-i, and having bloomed last spring. 



Our experiments with plums have proved very interesting. Out of 33 varieties 

 tested since twenty years we have still under cultivation 31 varieties, out of which the 

 nineteen following are bearing and give us good crops of fine fruit. They are: — 



Blue Damson, Lombard, St. Cloud, 



Canad.T, Orleans, Mirabelle, _ St. Denis Seedling, 



Coe's Golden Drop, Pond's Seedling, Saunders, 



Early Yell;)W, Purple Gage, Smith Oi-Ieans, 



Grind Duke, Reine Claude de Bavay, Unknown Seedling, 



Gueii, Reine Claude de Montmorency, Yellow Damson. 

 .John Trotter, 



From these we pick the following selected list of the very best ten varieties for 

 us: — 



Blue Damson, Lombard, Saunders, 



Coe's Goldt-n Drop, Purple Gage, Smith Orleans, 



Early Yellow, Reine Claude de Montmorency, St. Denis Seedling. 

 Gueii, 



The ten varieties of plums just indicated give plums fit to eat from August 25 

 to November 10. We sold them, this year, 30 cents a gallon, taken by the buyer on 

 the tree, without package*. 



We have made experiments with thirteen varieties of cherries; seven of them 

 have proved to be very valuable. They are: — 



French cherry, maturing from July 5 to 25. 



Ostheim, Russian, maturing from July 10 to 25. 



Empress Eugenie, maturing from July 15 to 31. 



Montmorency, maturing from July 20 to August 5. 



Bessarabian, Russian, maturing from the last days of July to the first days of 

 August. 



Lutovka, Russian, maturing from August 1 to 15, 



Fouche Morello, maturing from August 10 to 31. 



With those seven varieties, we can send cherries on the market from the second 

 week of July to the last week of AugLTst. 



