REPORT OP MR. N. WOLTERTON 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



BEANS. 



In like manner a special test was made of all obtainable varieties of beans. 



Twenty-five varieties were sown on May 31, and all germinated well. All varieties 

 did well, and all ripened tbeir seeds. Below is given, in tabular form, the results of 

 this test, coupled with short notes on those kinds deemed worthy of special mention. 

 Sown by hand in rows 30 inches apart, and afterwards thinned to 3 inches apart in 

 the row. 



Name of Variety. 



White Seeded ^yax 



Black Seeded Wax 



Giant Dwarf Bean. . . . 



Flacfc'oltit 



Davis Wl.ite Wax 



Golden Wax 



Keeney'a Wax 



Ward well's Wax 



Detroit Wax . . 



Saddleback 



Early Golden Wax 



Early Giant Wax 



Improved Prolific 



Golden Eyed Wax 



Carrie's Rust l^ronf 



Thorbnrn's Stringless. . . 



Pencil Pod Wax 



Round Pod Kidaey 



Dwarf Extra Early 



Dwarf Golden Stringlcss 



Gloire de Vitry 



Dwarf Black Speckled . . . 

 Dwarf Wax Every Day . . 



Emperor (.'f Russia 



Dwf. Matchle-ss 



Pro- 

 ductive. 



Very . . . . 



II . . . . 



11 . . . . 

 Fairly. . . 

 Very. .. 

 Faiily . . . 

 Very. . 

 Fairlj'. . . 



II . . 



II . . . 



II . . 

 Very . . . . 

 Fairly . . . 



11 



Very 



tl . . . . 



Fairly. . . 



It 

 Not very 

 Fairly 



II . . . 

 Very 



It . . . 



II . 

 Fairlv . . . 



Length 



of 



Pod. 



Inches. 



6 

 4 



7 

 5 

 4h 



4 

 4 

 5 



3i 



41 

 5 

 4i 

 5 



3i 

 5 



4h 



5J 



6 



4 



6 



5 



Colour. 



Light yellow 



II II 



Dark m 



II II 



Light II 



Dark n 



Light II 

 Dark 



II II 



Light II 



Dark h 



II II 



Light II 



II It 



Dark u 



Light It 

 Dark 



Light II 



G reen 



Light yello'vv 

 Green , 



Yellow 

 Green 



Fla 



Very good. 

 Fair. 

 Very good. 



(Jood. 

 Fair. 

 Good. 

 Very good. 



Good. 



Fair. 



Good. 

 jVery gooil. 



It 

 ll^air. 

 Very good. 



The following varieties are worthy of special mention : — • 



Grloire de Vitry. — A green bean of fair length and very productive. 



Early Giant Vs^ax. — A yellow bean producing a fairly long pod and very pro- 

 ductive; a good variety for general purposes. 



Dwarf Matchless. — A green podded bean, long and fairly productive. 



Emperor of Biissia. — This is a very fine bean, of excellent quality. The pods are 

 borne in great profusion and very productive. 



GARDEN TURNIPS. 



Garden turnips were a very unsatisfactory crop this season, their quality for 

 table use being very poor, doubtless on account of so much dry weather. Four varie- 

 ties, viz.. Early Stone, White Milan, Earl.v Wliite Strapleleaved and Robertson's Golden 

 Ball were sown with a hand drill on May 15 in rows 30 inches apart, Robertson's 

 Golden Ball being by far the best. 



BEETS. 



Five varieties of Icets, viz.. Nutting's Dwarf Improved, Long Blood Red, Egyptian 

 Beet, Extra Early and Extra Early Blood Red, were sown with a hand drill ia rows 

 30 inches apart on April 29, and the sample of roots was far below the average. Extra 

 Early Blood Red was the heaviest, yielding at the rate of 520 bushels 32 lbs. per acre. 



