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5 GEORGE v.. A. 1915 

 AKEA DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE. 



The area devoted to horticulture was increased by about 1 acre, making a total 

 with wood lots and avenues, of 22 acres. The drivevv'ays of the Station have already* 

 become one of its outstanding features. The introduction of automobiles has increased 

 their popularity. Further improvements were made to the picnic grounds and to the 

 lawns and surroundings about the Station buildings, which were nuicli admired. 



LARGE FRUITS. 



APPLES. 



The apple orchard that was set in 1910 made very satisfactory growth. The green 

 aphis was quite bad on a number of trees. The season seemed to be very favourable 

 to these insects, as they appeared in great numbers on many different trees and plants. 

 No fruit was borne on these young trees. The loss from all causes was very slight; 

 -sixty-five trees were received from the Central Farm and Avere set out to the west of the 

 apple orchard. A number of trees in the old orchard were removed to make room for 

 hedge rows and to make room for others. The trees were all carefully sprayed with 

 lime sulphur three times. Poison was added to the third spray to destroy the codling 

 moth. A good crop of apples was harvested from the remaining trees of the old 

 orchard. 



CHERRIES. 



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The cherry trees have grown rapidly. They were loaded with bloom; the greater 

 part of the bloom was destroyed by frost, causing a short crop of cherries. The small 

 quantity of fruit that matvired was only of fair quality. 



PLUMS. 



The plum trees have been wonderfully free from disease, and have made good 

 growth. About one-third of the trees bore some fruit. Some of them bearing from 3 

 to 4 pounds. Lombard, Monarch, and Grand Duke gave the most fruit. 



PEARS. 



The pear trees continue to outstrip the other fruit trees planted at the same time, 

 the Lucrative trees again being loaded with fruit. 



SMALL FRUIT. 



GRAPES. 



The mild weather of October was very favourable to the ripening of the grapes 

 which bore great loads of fruit. The Winchell and Moyer ripened before the 11th of 

 the month. The Peabody gave the heaviest average yield, and its fruit was of excel- 

 lent flavour. The Delaware and Golden Drop had good flavour, while the Wilde)', 

 Worden, and Lindley gave good yields that ripened after being picked for a time. 



CURRANTS. 



The bushes of red and white currants were again loaded with fruit. Knight's 

 Large Red and Greenfield leading in the red, and Kaiser and "White Cherry leading 



Charlottetown. 



