DIVISION OF FOBAGE PLANTS 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



MANGELS. 



Date of sowing, May 22 and 23. Date of pulling, October 18. Distance between 

 tbe plants in the rows, 7 inches. 



Mangels. — Test of Varieties 



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1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 

 8 

 9 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 23 



Name of Variety. 



Giant Yellow Globe 



Selected Yellow Globe 



Selected Giant Yellow Globe. . 



Windsor Yellow Globe 



Golden Tankard 



Gate Post 



Selected Perfection 



Prize Mammoth Long Red 



Mammoth Long Red 



2194 Mammoth Long Red 



2346 Mammoth Long Red 



2191 Barres Long Yellow 



2192 Barres Yellow Half- Long. 



2193 Red Eckendorfer 



Danish Sludstrup 



Danish Taaroje , 



Giant Yellow Intermediate . . . 

 Giant Yellow Intermediate . . . 



Giant Yellow Oval 



Giant White Half Sugar 



Giant White Half Sugar 



Giant Intermediate Sugar. . 

 2345 Half Sugar 



Average. 



Yield per acre. 



Tons 



44 

 42 

 39 

 45 

 20 

 31 

 28 

 25 

 23 

 19 

 28 

 24 

 28 

 27 

 27 

 25 

 19 

 24 

 26 

 27 

 28 

 26 

 29 



Lb. 



263 



60 



923 



224 



705 



570 



270 



4313 



1,727 



107 



1,575 



641 



226 



172 



639 



80S) 



1,228 



474 



304 



78 



1,254 



1,705 



1,028 



29 



61 



Yield per acre. 



Bush. 



1,471 

 1,401 

 1,315 

 1,503 

 878 

 1,042 

 937 

 840 

 795 

 635 

 959 

 810 

 937 

 902 

 910 

 846 

 653 

 807 

 871 

 SOI 

 951 

 895 

 983 



Lb. 



03 

 00 

 23 

 44 

 25 

 50 

 50 

 36 

 27 

 07 

 35 

 41 

 06 

 52 

 39 

 49 

 48 

 54 

 41 

 18 

 14 

 05 

 48 



967 



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In connection with the yield of different varieties of mangels it must be 

 mentioned that the injurious effect of cutworms necessitated transplanting to quite 

 a considerable extent, tbe result necessarily being that fair conclusions as to the com- 

 parative yielding powers of the different varieties were difficult to draw. 



CARROTS. 



Date of sowing, May 25. Date of pulling, October 20. Distance between the 

 plants in tbe rows, 3 inches. 



Carrots. — Test of Varieties. 



1 

 2 

 3 



4 



5 

 6 



Ontario Champion 



Chantenay • 



Half Long Chantenay . 



Mammoth White Intermediate. 



Giant White Vosges 



White Belgian 



Average. 



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545 



609 



