DITISION OF EOliTICLLTURE 



625 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



CAULIFLOWER. 



This is probably the hardest vegetable to grow profitably in this district, but 

 many failures are no doubt due to poor seed. The Early Snowball seems the best 

 variety to use here, but Veitch's Autumn Giant is a better yielder, and though 

 generally not giving as fine heads as the other, is pressing it very closely. We may 

 have to change our opinion about these after two or three years' tests. 



Name. 



Seed from 



So\ 



Danisli Giant 



Danish Giant 



Early Snowball 



Early Snowball 



Extra Selected Early Erfurt 

 Extra Selected Early Erfurt 



Selected Dwarf Erfurt 



Veitch's Autumn Giant 



Veitch's Autumn Giant 



Large Smooth Prague 



Ht. seed 1912... Mar. 27. 

 Ht. .seed 1913. .. Apr. 10. 

 V. seed 1912. . . . Mar. 27. 

 V. seed 1913. ... Apr. 5. 



V. seed 1912. 

 V. seed 1913. . 



D. &F 



E 



M.seed 1912.. 



Mar. 27.. 

 Apr. 5. . . 

 Mar. 27.. 



" 27... 



" 27. . . 



I 



I Ready 



Planted. 1 for 



' Use. 



June 21. 

 " 24. 



Aug. 26. 

 Sept. 2. , 



June 21 . 

 21. 

 21. 

 21. 

 21. 

 21. 



Aug. 18. 

 '• 20. 



" 23 . 

 " ''.S 

 Sept ."2! 

 " 2. 



Rank as to 



Yield. 



CELERIAC. 



Earli- 

 ness. 



4 

 5^ 



1 



2 

 3 

 3 



5 



5> 



H. 



Mar. 21... July 10. 



CELpRY. 



Of the two kinds, the green varieties, such as Giant Pa.scal, have completely 

 given way, in this district, to the so-called self-blanching sorts.. Seed of this vegetable 

 is always available too late at the Statioii to compare varieties, and no results have 

 been had for three years, that can be depended upon. Paris Golden Yellow is the 

 variety which enjoys the most popularity at present around here. 



CORN" 



Twenty-five strains and varieties were tested. Unfortunately, in this district^ 

 sweet corn is not appreciated a- it should be, and some of the field varieties, which 

 have nothing to recommend them byt their earliness and the size of their ears, find 

 their way to the table? of people who would pass for epicures. The earliest com at 

 this Station was a field variety, but the heaviest yielding was Early Malcolm, grown 



Cap Rouge. 



