REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Ten Most Productive Varieties — 16 and 8 Sets Planted, 1910. 



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Name of Variety. 



Flourball, from Johnson Seed Co 



Seedling from Miss. Mary Lilley, Dollar, Ont 



Purple potato, from John Brown, West Lockaber, N.S. 



Potato, from John Brown, West Lockaber, N.S 



Seedling from G. W. Queviemont, Lorraine, Ont 



* Green Mountain, from Jas. Lindsay, Oxford Mills, Ont 



7| Vulcan, from Jas. Lindsay, Oxford Mills, Ont 



Spruce, from Jas. Lindsay, Oxford Mills, Ont 



9 Potato, from Miss Flora E. Hodges, Skidegate, B.C. . . 

 10 Unknown potato, from A. C. Atkinson, Rc-gina, Sask. . 



No. of 



Sets 

 Planted 



8 

 16 



8 



8 

 16 

 16 

 16 

 16 



8 

 16 



Yield 

 per Acre 

 Market- 

 able. 



Bush. Lbs. 

 475 12 



431 

 422 

 404 

 352 

 352 

 374 

 334 

 334 

 237 



12 

 24 



48 



24 

 24 



3G 



Yield 

 per Acre 



Un- 

 market- 

 able. 



Bush. Lbs. 



26 24 



17 36 



17 36 



17 36 



35 12 



35 12 



8 48 



35 12 



17 36 



96 48 



POTATOES — TWELVE MOST PRODUCTIVE VARIETIES WHEN NOT SPRAYED WITH 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE, 1908-1910. 



Since 1905, those varieties which have proven productive and freest from blight 

 when sprayed with Bordeaux mixture have been grown by themselves and have not 

 been so sprayed. In all, fifty-three varieties have been grown in this way. A large 

 proportion of these have been discontinued as they have not done Well when unsprayed. 

 In the following table are the names of twelve tested during the past three years, with 

 yields. These are all medium late or late sorts and it has been noticed for several 

 years that the potatoes freest from late blight are the later varieties. These were 

 planted on May 17, and dug on October 19, 1910. 



