498 ' EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v.. A. 1915 



Season. per cent. 



August to mid-September 1 



Mid-September to mid-October . . . 16 



October and November 43 



December to February 22 



December to April 18 



100 



The season of Northern Spy is December to April. 



Resemblance. — Notes were taken when there was a marked resemblance to Nortli- 

 ern Spy in other characteristics, and the following gives some indication of the 

 proportion of these points of resemblance. 



Per cent. 



In general appearance 35 



In form 12 



In flesh 39 



In colour 19 



In flavour 3' 



No marked resemblance "3 



Size. — Only 2 per cent of the seedlings was small. Of these, one variety had the 

 iirm breaking flesh of a crab apple, the other was like a small apple. Only 12 per cent 

 was below medium, leaving 86 per cent of good marketable size. Over 1,200 seedlings 

 of eleven different parents have now fruited and the per cent of apples of marketable 

 size is about 80 per cent. 



Form. — Sixty-nine per cent of the apples was roundish or roundish conical, but it 

 is interesting to note that 28 per cent was oblate, which is a fairly large proportion. 



Colour. — Only 7 per cent had green or yellow colour predominating, but the per 

 cent of orange and orange red colour, 22, isi striking. There are indications that the 

 Northern Spy when in bloom received pollen from Sops of Wine, an orang':- red 

 coloured variety growing in the orchard, as the flavour of some of the seeJlin'^'^ 

 resembles Sops of Wine. 



Flavour. — Eighty-eight per cent of the seedlings was subacid or bri kly subacid, 

 and 7 per cent was sweet. Four per cent mildly sulTacid and 1 per cent acid. This 

 does not, however, represent the true flavour. Thirty-six per cent had a ||^vour dis- 

 tinctly Northern Spy-like and it would be very difficult to distinguish some of the 

 apples from Northern Spy in this respect. There are, among these, seedlings with the 

 flavour of Northern Spy with a season beginning in September and ending in spring. 

 Eight per cent had a peculiar flavour somewhat resembling Arkansas Black, or Paw- 

 paw, and as this flavour has been detected in a seedling of Northern Spy sent from 

 another part of Canada it would indicate that in the ancestry of the Northern Spy 

 there was a variety with that flavour. A few, 2 per cent, had a flavour resembling 

 Sops of Wine; this fl.avour was also detected in Wealthy seedlings. 



Quality. — It was hoped that an apple as good in quality as the Northern Spy 

 _would give a fair proportion of seedlings of .good flavour and quality, and we have 

 not been disappointed. Seventy-five per cent are distinctly above medium in quality, 

 of which 29 per cent are good to very good. 



Season. — It is quite encouraging to find that 40 per cent of the seedlings are 

 winter apples, only one seedling out of the 100 being a summer variety, and only 

 16 per cent early autumn, whereas in the case of the Wealthy seedlings, 21 per cent 

 wore summer apples, and 29 per cent early autumn, and 21 per cent winter. 



Number propagated fmd named. — Of the 100 seedlings described, no less than 

 forty-five were considered sufficiently promising to propagate for further test, and 



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