REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST. 



119 



Cauliflowers. — Con. 



Variety. 



Giant Purple early 



Giant Purple late 



Giant White Pearl 



Gilt Edge Snowball 



Half Early Dwarf French . . 



Imperial Novelty 



Italian Taranto 



Landreth's 1st 



Large Algiers 



Large Early London 



Large Early Dwarf Erfurt. . . 



Le Norraand Short Stem 



Non Pariel 



Snowball 



Stadtholder 



Veitch's Autumn Giant 



Seedsman. 



Childs... 

 do . . 



Pearce 



Thorbum , 



do . 

 Landreth. . . 

 Thorbum . . 

 Landreth. . . 

 Thorburn . . 



do ... 



do ... 



do ... 



do ... 

 March . . . 

 Thorbum . . . 

 Steele Bros.. 



o 



a 



94- 

 95- 



82- 

 86- 

 92- 

 45- 



58 



67- 



72- 



70- 



58- 



77- 



76- 



92- 



60- 



85- 



13 



a 



c 



«8 



June 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



3 



'^ bo 



-S.S 



c3 -^ 



3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 3. 

 5. 

 3. 

 5. 



Sept. 6., 



do 6. 



July 26. 



do 29. 



do 29. 



do 17. 



Oct. 2. 



July 26. 



Sept. 6. 



Aug. 14. 



July 17. 



Aug. 8. 



do 20. 



do 2. 

 Sept. 6. 



do 6. 





•-> bo 



<D a 



cS -w 



Oct. 28. 



do 20. 



Sept. 11. 



do 19 



do 6. 



Oct. 20. 



do 20. 



Sept. 11. 



do 26. 



Oct. 20. 



do 2. 



Aug. 23. 

 Sept. 6. 



do 6. 



Oct. 4. 



do 20. 



•a 



bo-o 



Ph 



60 

 35 

 85 

 100 

 80 

 88 

 35 

 42 

 70 

 95 

 92 

 70 

 45 

 85 

 45 

 15 



bo 



o 



bo t* 



Lbs. 

 76i 

 68 

 68 

 50^ 

 22i 

 14i 

 32 

 12 

 444 

 46i 

 27i 

 16 

 7 

 41i 



34| 



9| 



Lbs. 

 5 

 9 

 4 

 2 

 1 



1 12 

 4 9 



2 

 3 



2 

 2 

 1 







2 

 I 



4 

 2 



12 



2 6 



3 13 

 3 4 



Eesults : 



Gilt-edge Snow-ball (Thorburn) gave the highest number of matured heads, 

 averaging 2^ lbs. each. This was the most satisfactory eai-ly sort. 



Giant "White Pearl (Pearce). A medium early variety of good size, headed evenly 

 and yielded 85 per cent of solid heads, with an average weight of 4 lbs. each. 



Early Snowball (March), This from American grown seed proved one of the 

 beet early kinds. Its maturing season covered two months, beginning July 18th, 

 which would be an advantage to the amateur, but a drawback to the market 

 gardener; 86 per cent matured with an average weight of 3^ pounds per head. 



American grown seed gave very satisfactory returns with regard to vitality. 



Among the late varieties, Large Algiers, Autumn Giant and Giant Purple Early 

 were the most satisfactory. 



TEEES, CUTTINGS, SEEDS, AND SCIONS DISTEIBUTED. 



In order to assist the Quebec Government in furthering the very useful line 

 of experimental work in horticulture inaugurated last year — that of establishing trial 

 fruit stations in each county — the following varieties of apples were supplied by 

 the Central Farm : — 



Variety. No. of Trees. Season of Fruit. 



Sweet Stripe 50 Fall. 



Bogdanoff 25 Winter. 



Charlamoff. , 75 Summer. 



