DIVI&ION OF HORTICULTURE 



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the first of May. The plants are protected for the winter by covering them by a foot 

 of clean straw in the autunin. In the spring of 191-3 this mulch was not lifted until 

 nearly the fii-st of June. The plants were green and fresh when uncovered, and by 

 being uncovered so late were in no way injured by the late spring frosts. 



VEGETABLES. 



Hotbeds and cold frames were constructed in accordance' with directions given in 

 pamphlet No. 4 by Mr. W. T. Macoun, Experimental Earm, Ottawa. These were 

 operated as early as the season permitted. The seed was sown in the middle of April. 



Marked success was attained, particularly in the starting of cabbage, cauliflower, 

 tomatoes, squash, vegetable marrow, celery, and cucumbers. It is not necessary to use 

 the hotbed in the stai'ting of such vegetables as beets, beans, carrots, parsnips, corn, 

 peas, and turnips. The yield of cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, celery, and 



roots such as carrots, parsnips, and turnips is so entirely satisfactory that there is no 

 doubt of the great possibilities for the growing of these crops on a large scale in this 

 (■ountry. 



•Success was attained this year in the production of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, 

 and corn, but the season being unusually long, and the plants having been given every 

 possible attention, it is questionable whether these can be relied upon as regularly 

 profitable crops. 



Beans. 



Vn,rictv. 



Weight of one row, 

 30 feet long. 



Meteor 



Egyptian Blood Red. . . 



Ruby Dulcet 



Black Red Ball 



Erlipse 



Ivteney's Rustless Wax. 



Valentine 



Earlv Refugee 



Refugee or 1000 to 1 



Bountiful 



Wardwell's Kidney Wi-.x 

 Ptringless Green Pod 



C.\BBAGE. 



Variety. 



Extra Amager Danish Ballhead. . 

 Improved Amager Danish Ballhead 



Giant or Dryweather 



Flat Swedish 



Large Flat Drumhead 



Fcttler's Improved Brunswick 



Early Paris Market 



Copenhjigen Market 



Danish Summer Balllicad 



Lubeck 



Danish Delicatesse Red 



Winningstadt 



Small El furt 



Red Danish Stonchead 



Magdeburg 



Early Jersey Wakefield 



Extra Early Midsummer Savoy. ... 

 Improved Danish Roundhead 



Average 



■weight 



per head. 



ROSTHERX. 



