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EXPERIMENTA L FA RMS. 



Apple Orchard No. 2 — Concluded. 



Name of Variety. 



Princess Louise 



Pewaukee Russet 



Peck's Pleasant 



Peter 



Rambo 



Ribston Pippin 



R. I. Greening 



Rome Beauty 



Red Astrachan 



Royal Table. 



Red Bietigheimer 



Roxbury Russet 



Stark 



Serinkia 



Spitzenburg 



Sultan 



Seek-No-Further 



St. Lawrence 



Sop of Wino 



Scott's Winter 



Shannon 



Tetofskv 



Titovka 



Trenton 



Talnian's Sweet. . . _. . . 

 Twenty-ounce Pippin. 



Wellington 



Wagener 



Wealthy 



Walbridge 



Yellow Transparent. 



Character of Growth. 



Fair. 

 Strong. 



Weak. 

 Fair. 



Strong. 



3 strong, 2 fair. 



1 II 1 ., 



1 .. 1m 



1 .• 



Fair. 



II 

 1 strong. 

 1 strong, 1 fair. 

 Strong. 



1 strong, 2 fair. 

 Weak. 



2 strong. 

 Fair. 



II 

 Strong. 



It 

 2 strong. 

 Weak. 



1 strong, 1 fair. 

 Fair. 



Strong. 



2 strong, 3 fair. 



Apple Orchard No. 2. 



This orchard is situated on a somewhat higher piece of land than orchard No. 1, 

 and is protected on all sides by a windbreak of a natural growth of spruce. 



The land was cut and cleared in 1890 and some 39 apple trees were planted 

 amongst the stumps at that time. Some of the trees then planted have made good 

 growth, with others the growth has not been so satisfactory. The land has since been 

 broken up and was this year all planted with apple trees. Part of this land was under- 

 drained in the fall of 1896 ; the other part was drained this autumn. The very wet 

 season was very unfavourable for the trees planted in the undrained land and they 

 have made weak growth, and some few have died. The trees planted on the under- 

 drained part have all made strong growth. 



Between the growth of the trees in this orchard, and those in orchard No. 1, there 

 is a decided difference in favour of the latter. 



Two trees planted have died from the effects of "sun scald;" 12 were so badly 

 girdled by mice in the winter of 1894-95, that they had to be replaced. 



This orchard now contains 160 living trees of 90 varieties — 67 of which are not 

 represented in orchard No. 1. This gives us in the two orchards a total of 336 apple 

 trees including 149 varieties. 



