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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



Bird Cherry Stocks (Prunus Fennsylvanica.) 



This native cherry has much to commend it as a propagating stock, but also 

 possesses a few serious defects. 



It is hardy and easily grown from seed. On the other hand, its growing season 

 is so extended, and growth so rapid and succulent during that period, that it is often 

 difficult to hit upon the most favourable time for budding. Several hundred were 

 budded late in August of 1892, but with poor success, owing to the large amount of 

 sap in the stocks at the time of budding, which prevented the immediate union of the 

 buds, (xrowth continued till arrested by frost late in September. In order to pre- 

 vent the stocks from being girdled by the fibre used in tying, it was necessary to 

 loosen and re-tie, twice after the buds were inserted. 



This year the stocks were not budded until the first week in September, and 

 less difficulty from over-growth was experienced, and better results are looked for. 



VEGETABLES. 

 Experiments with Cauliflowers. 



A varietal test of cauliflowers was carried on this season. Twenty plants each 

 of twenty-eight varieties were set out on 3rd June. The seed from which these were 

 grown was sown in hot bed 4th April, and pricked into a cold frame, 28th April. 

 The ground was prepared by deep fall ploughing and dressing with barnyard manure 

 at the rate of 75 tons to the acre. The plants were set in rows, three by two 

 feet apart and cultivated with a Planet jr. horse cultivator. As the heads matured 

 they were weighed and the weights recorded with dates of cutting. The results are 

 embodied in the subjoined table. Some of the late varieties were injured by root 

 maggots which were not detected soon enough to be successfully treated with 

 hellebore. The season on the whole was favourable for the development of firm crisp 

 heads of good size. 



Cauliflowers. 



Variety. 



Autumn Giant 



Early Asiatic 



Early Boston 



Earliest Dwarf Erfurt 



Early Dwarf Erfurt 



Early Perfection 



Elarly Long Island Beauty. . . 



Early Paris .... 



Early Snowball 



Early Walcheren 



p]xtra Early Dwarf Erfurt.. . 

 Extra Early Whitehead 



