5 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 A. 1915 



REPORT FROM THE DIVISION OF HORTICULTDRE 



Ottawa, March 31, 1914. 



J. H. Grisdale, Esq., B. Agr., 



Director, Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit herewith the twenty-seventh annual report of 

 the Division of Horticulture, being the sixteenth since I became head of the Division. 



Included herein will be found the reports of the work at the Central Earm at 

 Ottawa and those which have been prepared by the Superintendents of the Experi- 

 mental Farms and Stations at Nappan, N.S., Kentville, N.S., Charlottetown, P.E.I., 

 Fredericton, X.B., Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Que., Cap Eouge, Que., Brandon, Man., 

 Indian Head, Sask., Rosthern, Sask., Scott, Sask., Lethbridge, Alta., Lacombe, Alta., 

 Agassiz, B.C., Invermere, B.C., and Sidney, B.C., also a report from Thos. A. Sharpe, 

 Salmon Arm, B.C., of experiments conducted on his farm. There are also reports 

 from the Sub-stations at Fort Vermilion, Peace River district; from Grouard, Lesser 

 Slave lake; from Grande Prairie, Alta., and from Fort Resolution and Fort 

 Providence, in the Mackenzie district. 



Owing to the large proportion of my time spent in connection with the branch 

 Farms and Stations, it is not possible for me now to look after as many of the details 

 of the experimental work of the Horticultural Division at Ottawa as I once did, 

 lience, as reported last year, I have divided the work into Pomology, Vegetable 

 Gardening, Ornamental Gardening and Plant Breeding, and an assistant has been 

 placed in charge of each of these. I have asked these assistants to prepare reports 

 on the work which has been entrusted to them. These wiil be found further on in 

 my report after the information on seedling apples originated in the Horticultural 

 Division which, with that which goes before, has been prepared by me. 



BRANCH FARMS. 



With the large number of branch Farms and Stations now included in the 

 Experimental Farm System, the work of the Horticultural Division in connection 

 with them is considerable and has necessitated the devoting of a large part of the 

 time of the Dominion Horticulturist to the planning of experiments on the new 

 Stations, to the setting out of plantations of fruits, vegetables an.d ornamental plants, 

 and to assisting the Superintendents of the older Farms and Stations by what advice 

 it has been possible to give. During the past year also, as in previous years, many 'of 

 the supplies of plants, seeds, labels, record books, and other material for the branch 

 Farms and Stations has been either ordered through the Horticultural Division or 

 sent from the Central Farm. 



The Experimental Farm at Agassiz, B.C., was visited by me on March 31 and 

 April 1, 1913. It was decided to remove eighteen of the sample hedges which have 

 been tested there for a number of years, and most of which had not proved satisfactory. 

 Notes were taken on these hedges before they were removed. Material for a home 

 orchard and fruit plantation of varieties such as were considered desirable for farmers 

 to grow on the lower mainland of British Columbia had been ordered by me and a 



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