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EXPERIMENTA L FA RMS. 



canopy of foliage over each stake, and set little fruit which ripened very unevenly. 

 The amount of fruit set in the case of varieties like Brighton, which are in the mat- 

 ter of fertilization, dependant in a measure upon pollen from other varieties, was 

 very small, owing no doubt to the leafy covering surrounding the blossoms. It will 

 be noticed that while the yields of both pruned and unpruned vines are in adecreas- 

 ing ratio, for in 1892 and 1893 this feature is much more prominent in the case of 

 the unpruned vines. 



Yield of Pruned and Unpruned Grape Yines. 



Number 



of 



vines. 



3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



Variety. 



Trained to Stakes. 



Bacchus 



Brighton . 

 (( 



Champion 

 Clinton . . 



Concord , 



Delaware 



Early Victor. 



Merrimack 



Niagara , 



Uni')runed . 

 Pruned . . . 

 Unprune d . 

 Pruned . . 

 Unpruned . 

 Pruned . . . . 

 Unpruned 

 Pruned. . , . 

 Unpruned . 

 Pruned ... 

 Unpruned . 

 Pruned ... 

 Unpruned 



Pruned 



Unpnmed. 

 Pruned . . . . 

 Unpruned . 

 Pruned. . . . 



1882. 

 Yield. 



Lbs. ozs. 

 4 8 



3 



7 

 4 

 3 



10 

 4 

 4 

 5 



12 

 5 

 5 

 3 

 6 

 



15 

 4 

 2 

 4 

 8 

 8 

 9 



12 

 3 

 



13 

 8 



15 

 4 



10 



1803. 

 Yield. 



Lbs. ozs. 



1 



2 1 

 none. 



15 



7 



13 

 2 

 1 

 

 2 

 

 

 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 

 2 



4 



11 







15 

 12 

 10 

 12 

 12 



8 

 12 





 10 



8 

 10 



Two year 



average per 



vine. 



Pounds. 

 91 



00 



83 

 84 

 62 

 04 

 08 

 08 

 08 

 46 

 91 

 09 

 81 

 78 

 87 

 87 

 25 

 53 



EXPERIMENTS IN FALL AND 'SPKING TPANSPLANTING. 



Opinions vary much with regard to the relative success and advantage of trans- 

 planting trees in the fall or in the spring. Some advocate fall planting, while 

 others favour setting in spi-ing. The effect of transplanting apple trees in the autumn 

 in this locality has already been recorded in the report of the Horticulturist for the 

 year 1888, p. 78. 



In this connection Mr. Hilborn says : " 216 apple trees were transplanted from 

 the nursery rows in the autumn of 1887, to an orchard, with a view of testing the 

 relative merits of fall and spring planting," 



