DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 343 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



Eighteen bushes each of Houghton, Downing. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Twelve bushes of Herbert, six bushes of Sunbeam, twelve bushes of Caroline, six 

 bushes of King, nine bushes of Loudon, seven bushes of Miller, five bushes of Turner. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



The strawberry crop was rather disappointing this year. The June drought was 

 at its severest just when they should have been bearing. The plantation is getting 

 rather old; this, with the drought, made a light crop. 



APPLES. 



The apple orchard is, in the opinion of the present Superintendent, very poorly 

 located. It is on a steep southern slope, where the bright sun in March and April 

 causes the sap to flow too early; this is followed by heavy frost, and the trees are 

 injured. Good locations for an apple orchard are scarcely to be found on this Farm, 

 as the light land practically all slopes southward, and the bottom land is too heavy 

 and rich. 



It is still impossible to report success with standard apples. One tree, a num- 

 bered variety called No. 179, bore some fine, large, red apples of good flavour. Most 

 of the standard apple trees are in an unthrifty condition. 



The following varieties of crossbred or crab apples bore fruit: Silvia, Northern 

 Queen, Ruby, Robin, Elsa, Prince, Alberta, Hyslop, Norman, Carleton, No. 171, East- 

 man, Jewel, Tony, Osman and Eve, and Ostrakoff a Russian variety of apple. Of 

 these, Silvia is the most satisfactory, the tree is vigorous and hardy, the fruit is of 

 good flavour, and is the size of a good crab apple. The fruit is early ripening 

 and does not keep well. Other varieties that did well are: Northern Queen, a small- 

 sized crab, but well flavoured and prolific; Robin, much like Silvia, but not bearing 

 so well, Ruby and Tony. All the cross-bred varieties seem fairly hardy except Pioneer 

 and Lang, which seem more subject to sunscald and blight. 



A large number of trees, seedlings of cross-bred apples, are in the orchard. The 

 fruit of most of these is quite inferior. However, two trees, both seedlings of Cluster, 

 bore good crops of apples that compared favourably with the cross-bred apples. 



Vacancies in the orchard have been filled up by planting young trees. The 

 following varieties were obtained from A. P. Stevenson, of Dunstan, Man.; Gipsy 

 Girl, Blushed Calville, Kluevskoe, Antonovka, Volga Anis, Anisette, Phillips, Lyman's 

 Crab, Repka Risla,^,. Simbirsk, Charlamoff and Hibernal. Trees of the following 

 varieties were received from the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa: Pioneer, 

 Jewel, Columbia, Prince, Hibernal and Charles. 



SEEDLINGS OF STANDARD APPLES. 



A new departure in the testing of apple trees has been made this year. Hereto- 

 fore the trees used have been two or three years old at the time they were received 

 and planted out. They were planted in permanent locations and consequently took 

 a great deal of room. This year, a large number of small seedlings, one year old, were 

 obtained from the Central Experimental Farm and set out in nursery row3. They 

 were planted in rows three feet apart, and are one foot apart in the row. Thus a 

 large number can be tried in a small area. The object is to test the hardiness of the 



