REPORT UF AIR. AXGVS .UACKAT 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



bred Apples, which were set out in a new orchard east of the barn. 2 trees each of 

 Golden and Silvia, cross-bred apples were also received. 



A list is given of the varieties comprised in the above mentioned lotsl 



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Carmnn. 



Snelling. 



Areola. 



Solina. 



Selkirk. 



Ponoka. 



Raniona. 



Souris. 



Russian Seedlings. 



1 Sanford. 

 1 Wesley. 

 1 Bolton. 

 1 T'ingree. 

 1 Birtle. 

 1 GrenfelL 

 1 Bowie. 

 1 Hanley. 



Morden. 



B':pert. 



^losiin. 



iluiley. 



Long. 



V^i den. 



Excelsior 



Simbirsk 



Crab. 

 No. 9. 



Seedlings of Cross-hred Apples. 



Five trees of Aitkin Plum were received from tJie Central Experimental Farm, 

 and planted out. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



The South Dakota Experiment Station, Brookings, S.D., kindly sent 50 plants of 

 S. D. No. 1 Strawberry (seedling of Jessie, fertilized with pollen of Manitoba Wild 

 Strawbeny), which were set out near those they sent in 1905. 



One hundred plants of Dunlap Strawberry were received from Mr. W. H. Fairfield, 

 Lothbridge, Alta., and planted. 



FRUIT CROP. 



SIBERIAN CRAB APPLES (P. haccato). 



There was a medium ci'op of this fruit, the quality being good, except for tlie f;u>t 

 that some of the crabs had been brused slightly by hailstones in the storm of July 

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CROSS-BRED APPLES. 



A good many of these varieties fruited for the first time in 1906. The fruit was 

 in general somewhat smaller than that of the same varieties grown at Ottawa, but 

 this may perhaps be accounted for by the very dry weather during August, at the 

 time the fruit was filling. 



Derby, Northern Queen, and seedlings of Pauline, Dean and Aurora, bore fruit 

 «tf fair size, and of quality much superior to the Pyrus baccata. 



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