DITISION OF HORTICULTURE 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



TOMATOES. 



Sown in hothouse March 25; transplanted in garden May 26. The yield is the 

 number of pounds of fruit, both green and ripe, taken on September 10 from one 

 plant of each variety set three feet apart. 



Variety. 



Sparks Earliana (Sunnybrook Strain) 



Chalk's Early J ewel 



Bonny Best 



Trophy 



Matchless 



Livingston's Globe 



Bennie's XXX Earliest 



Florida Special 



Sparks Earliana, 12-23, C.E.F 



Sparks Earliana, 12-18, C.E.F 



Sparks Earliana, C.E.F ... 



Sparks Earliana, I.H 



First Ripe. 



Sept. 

 Aug. 



Sept. 



Aug. 

 Sept. 



II 



Aug. 



9. 



28. 



4. 



4. 



9. 

 10. 

 10. 

 28. 

 28. 

 10. 

 10. 

 30. 



Yield. 



Lbs. 



7 



4i 



4" 



3 



5 



5 



5 



6 



4 



7 



6 



8 



Remarks. 



Large fruit. 

 Small 



Large 



Small 



LargA 



Medium 



Large 



Medium 



TABLE TURNIPS. 



One variety, Early White Flat Strap Leafed, was sown in the garden May 19; 

 ready for use July 12, giving a yield of 986 bushels per acre. 



SUMMER SAVORY. 



Sown in garden May 9; in use July 14; pulled September 11. Gave a good crop. 



SAGE. 



Sown in garden May 9 ; pulled September 11. Gave a good crop. 



RHUBARB. 



Old beds in use from May 15 up to September 4 ; made a good growth during the 

 season. The following vaiieties were grown: — 



Myatt Linnseus. 

 Victoria. 



Fottler s Improved. 

 Royal Linnaeus. 



Prince Albert. 

 Scarlet Nonpareil. 

 Strawberry. 



FLOWERS. 



The show of flowers last year has seldom been surpassed, both in quality and 

 length of time in bloom. Asters, stocks, verbenas and petunias were never better. 

 Sweet peas were sown in four collections and were remarkable for size and beauty. 

 In perennials, paeonies, tulips, gladioli, dahlias and cannas were extra fine. 



ROSES. 



Except the single varieties, none of the roses was conspicuous. Nine double 

 varieties bloomed, these being La France, pink; Magna Charta, pink; Mrs. R. G. 

 Sharman Crawford, pink; Frau Karl Druschki, white; Margaret Dickson, white; 

 Ulrich Brunner, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Mrs. John Laing and Captain Hayward, red. 

 The third and last c amed are the finest. 



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