REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



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Plums — Test of Varieties. 



Name of Variety. 



New Ulm 



De Soto 



Clinton 



Deep Creek 



Neill's 



Van Buren 



Easter 



Missouri Apricot 



Gaylord 



Ocheeda 



Silsis Wilson 



Irene 



Weaver , . 



American Eagle 



Forest Rose 



Emerson 



Hammer 9. 



Illinois Ironclad 



Chas. Downing 



Van Deman 



Crescent City 



Wood 



Large Red Sweet 



Speer 



Dunlop Nut 



Colorado Queen . 



Peffer's Premium . . . , 



Cheney . . .. 



Purple Yosemite 



Cottrell 



Milton 



Yellow Sweet 



City 



Col. Wilder 



Richland. 



Dr. Dennis 





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Remarks. 



Healthy growth. 



KiUed to ground, growing below graft. 



II II M II 



Slightly killed, healthy growth. 

 Half hardy m 



Killed to snow line. 



Slightly killed back. 

 Killed to near ground. 

 Slightly winter-killed. 

 Killed to ground. 

 Ap))arently hardy. 

 Killed to snow line. 

 . If near ground. 



Slightly killed back. 

 Killed to snow line. 

 Slightly killed back. 

 Killed to snow line. 

 Apparently hardy. 



II II 



Killed to snow line. 

 Apparently hardy, some bloom. 



Apparently hardy. 

 Killed to snow line. 

 Apparently hardy. 

 Killed to snow line. 



Slightly killed back. 

 Killed back half. 



The seedlings of Weaver, De Soto, Cheney, Voronesh 102, and Speer sent from the 

 Central Farm which have now been growing here for three years, came through last 

 winter in good condition, many of them blossoming for the first time, but owing to late 

 spring frosts the fruit did not form. 



A large consignment of seedlings of Cheney, Hungarian, Yosemite Yellow, Voronesh, 

 Ida, RoUingston, Weaver, De Soto, Van Buren, Wolf, Yosemite Purple, Speer and 

 American were received from the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, this spring. 

 They arrived here in good condition and specimens of all were planted in permanent 

 orchards. 



The remainder were planted in nursery rows where they will be available for 

 distribution for test in other parts of the province. With few exceptions they have 

 become established and made healthy growth. 



The native Manitoba plum, however is the variety on which our hopes are chiefly 

 centered as a hardy sort for this province, and some of them transplanted from the 

 river banks have already fruited here. 



Many thousand trees have been raised from seeds of selected fruit from different 

 parts of this province, and when these arrive at the fruiting stage, the work of selecting 

 the best will be most interesting. Scions have been taken from the more promising 

 types of those that have already borne fruit so that propagation by grafting may b© 

 accomplished. 

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