REPORT OF MR. W. S. BLAIR 



379 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CRAPES. 



Florence 



Lady 



Moyre's Early. 



Mover 



Telegraph 



Lindley 



Hayes 



Worden 



Barry 



Bacchus 



Moore's Diamond 



Herbert 



Vergenncs 



Roger's No. 17 



Colour of Fruit. 



Black 



White 



Black 



Bright red .... 



Black 



Red 



White 



Black 



ii 



ii . . . . 



Greenish white. 



Black 



Bright red 

 Blue black 



Remarks. 



Fair quality ; vigorous. 

 Good quality m 

 Fair quality ; fairly vigorous. 

 Good quality ; vigorous. 



M fairly vigorous. 



H vigorous. 



M ii 



ii fairly vigorous. 



Poor quality ; vigorous. 



it ii 



Good quality ; vigorous. 



ii ii 



Did not ripen ; vigorous. 



KHUBAKB. 



Five varieties of rhubarb were grown in rows six feet apart each way. The soil 

 was a heavy clay loam and the crop is not early on such ground. The advantage in 

 favour of a light but loamy soil for this plant is very great, as the early crop generally 

 realizes double the price that is obtained a few days later. The plants were manured 

 in the fall with well rotted manure which was dug in around the plants as early in the 

 spring as possible. We have found that August is the best time for dividing and re- 

 setting roots, which should be done every four or five years. 



The variety, Carleton Club, is a very large growing variety, and should be more 

 widely known. Mitchell's Koyal Albert is also very large, but late. The yield obtained 

 from four plants was as follows: — 



Name of Variety. 



When Pulled. 



Paragon 



Linnaeus 



Victoria 



Carleton Club 



Mitchell's Royal Albert. 



May 21 

 „ 21 

 „ 21 



„ 27 

 •Tune 3 



Yield from 

 four 

 Plants. 



Lbs. 



22 

 32 

 24 

 4G 

 21 



LIME WASH FOR THE OYSTER-SHELL BARK LOUSE. 



This mixture was prepared by slacking fresh lime in water and adding more water 

 to make it of the strength desired. One experiment was made with the mixture in 

 the proportion of 1 pound of lime to 1 gallon of water, and another with 2 pounds of 

 lime to i gallon of water. The trees treated in this experiment were young, only 2 

 years planted, which were badly covered with the bark louse. They were in a neigh- 

 bouring orchard. 



The wash made of 1 pound of lime to a gallon of water was not nearly so effective 

 as the one where 2 pounds of lime was used. On the tree- where the latter mixture 

 was used the scales were over three-quarters killed. It* tin-; is used in the fall as ad- 

 vised by Mr. W. T. Macoun, horticulturist of the Central Farm, there is no doubt but 



