REPORT OF MR. THOMAS A. SHARPE. 



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The following trees produced a few plums each. 



Varieties. 



Peters' Yellow 

 Yellow Egg 

 Sugar Plum 



Damson 



Reine Claude 



Fellenberg 



Peach Plum 



Coe's Golden Drop 



Bleeker's Gage 



Red Egg 



Washington 



German Prune 



Bradshaw 



Imperial Gage 



Italian Prune 



Columbia 



Jefferson 



General Hand 



Niagara 



Moyer 



Large Golden Prolific 



Shippers' Pride 



Remarks. 



Medium to large. 

 Very large. 

 Medium. 

 SmalL 

 Medium. 



do 

 Very large. 

 Large. 

 Medium. 

 Large. 



Above medium. 

 Medium. 

 Large. 



Above medium. 

 Medium. 

 Very large. 

 Medium. 

 Medium to large. 

 Large. 

 Medium. 

 Above medium, 

 do 



CHERRIES. 



The cherries blossomed very freely last spring, but only a few set fruit, and 

 almost all of the fruit fell off when about a quarter grown. 



Fig. 1 is from a photograph of a cherry tree at the Experimental Farm, Agassiz, 

 second year from planting, showing the character of the growth. 



The extreme cold of last winter, followed by the cold wet weather which con- 

 tinued all through the blossoming season, proved unfavourable for this fruit. 



The chei'ry trees have, however, shown no lack of wood growth, and judging 

 from the fruit buds, there is promise of an abundant crop of this, as of all other 

 fruits next season. 



The following additional varieties have been planted this year : — 



Arch Duke, 

 Early Elvers, 

 White Heart, 

 Kose, 



Grruner Glass, 

 Strauss. Weichsel, 

 Orel No. 20, 



Downton, 

 Nouvelle Royal, 

 Shadow Amarolle, 

 Koslov Morello, 

 Grlaskirsch Doppelte, 

 Koeper, 



Early Lyons, 



Royal Duke, 



Orel No. 24, 



Heart Shaped Weichsel, 



Orel 19, 



King's Morello. 



There are now 67 varieties of cherry trees in the orchard. 



NECTARINES. 



Nectarines suffered severely from the cold of last winter. On nearly every tree 

 the previous year's growth was killed and had to be removed, and in young trees 

 that is nearly all the growth there is the first spring. Most of the trees have, how- 

 ever, made a fairly strong growth this year. 



The new varieties planted this spring are : — 



Albert Victor, Humboldt, Hunt's Tawny, and Pine Apple; there are now in all 16 

 varieties in the orchard. 



