REPORT OF TEE HORTICULTURIST 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



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TOMATOES — RESULTS FROM SELECTION 



129 



Selected for 



. 1910. 



Most uniform and large.-.t crop of early fruit 



Most productive and most uniform 



Largest crop of early fruit 



Earliest ripe fruit 



1909. 



Most uniform and largest crop of early fruit 



Most productive and most uniform 



Largest crop of early fruit 



Earliest ripe fruit 



1908. 



Most uniform and largest crop of early fruit 

 Most productive and most uniform . ... 



Largest crop of early fruit 



Earliest ripe fruit 



1907. 



Most uniform and largest crop of early fruit 



Most productive and most uniform , 



Largest cropof early fruit 



Earliest iipe fruit 



Average for four years, 1907 to 1910. 



Most uniform and largest crop of early fruit 

 Most productive and most uniform . . 



Largest crop of early fruit 



Earliest ripe fruit 



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SPRAYING EXPERIMENTS. 



SPRAYING TO CONTROL OYSTER SHELL SCALE OR BARK LOUSE. 



Experiments conducted in the years 1899, 1900, and 1901, by the Horticultural 

 Division for the control of Oyster Shell Scale proved conclusively, in our judgment, 

 that the scales could be removed by the application of lime and water. Several formu- 

 las were tried, but the following statement published in the annual report for 1901, 

 gives the conclusions reached and the formulas recommended. 



CONCLUSIONS REACHED UP TO DECEMBER, 1901. 



1. Lime slacked in water and sprayed on apple trees infested with the oyster shell 

 bark louse has the effect of loosening the scales. 



2. The scales, when loosened, are removed from the trees by rain, ice, wind, and 

 probably by other means. 



3. As the scales contain the eggs from which the young insects hatch about June 1, 

 it is necessary, in order to get the best results, that the trees be sprayed as soon as 



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