DiriSIOX OF EOr.TICrLTVRE 727 



S'ESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



THE COMIMERCIAL APPLE ORCHAED. 



The last original apple orchard was removed during early , spring. This 

 orchard, although comparatively young, was badly diseased, being affected with the 

 apple tree Anthracnose (Ula'osporium inaiicorticis). During the last two seasons not 

 a single tree produced any No. 1 apples, and many of the trees did not fruit at alL 

 Indeed, since the year 1911 little or no first-grade fruit has been produced. In tliat 

 year the orchard was sprayed and pruned and clean cultivation was practised, la 

 1913 the clover was cut twice as green feed. There is no record of the treatmcuit 

 previous to 1911. 



In the table given below will be found a record of the varieties planted and the 

 dates of planting. Some of the trees died at different stages and were replaced by 

 others of the same variety. In each case a record was kept and the results are 

 given in the fourth and fifth columns of the table. Next, the number of trees living 

 in 1914 is given, and their condition when taken out. Finally the last column gives 

 the entire yield of No. 1 fruit from each variety. 



It should be mentioned here that the total number of trees planted originally 

 in 19('5 was 108. Of these, nineteen died in 1909, the same number in 1910, and in 

 the year 1911 thirty-nine trees died. Thus in six years 71 per cent, or nearly three- 

 quarters of the original number of tree^ died. From time to time the dying trees 

 were replaced by others and, in addition, more varieties were planted. The total 

 number of trees planted from 1905 to 1910, including the original setting, was 209. 

 Of these, only sixty-four were living in 191-t. In other words, during a period of 

 nine years, only 30-6 per cent of all the trees planted survived, and of this number 

 not a single tree was free from disease. Of the varieties tried, the King and the 

 Grimes' Golden gave the best results. 



Agassiz. 



