618 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7 GEORGE V, A. 1917 



NAMES GIVEN TO APPLES OEIGINATED IN THE HOETICTJLTURAL 



DIVISION, CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL EARM, OTTAWA, 



UP TO MARCH 31, 1916.— Concluded. 



Seedling Varieties. 



Cross-bred Varieties. 



Rustler 



Mavis 



Vermac 



Holz 



Granby 



Kelso 



.Sorel 



Dorval 



Roberval 



Valois 



Walton 



11 varieties. 



Total, 118 varieties. 



Female Parent. 



McIntoshX Lawver 



Lawver X Mcintosh 



McMahan X Scott Winter 



<€ 



<{ 

 U 



Date of 

 Sowing seed. 



Date of 

 Planting tree, 



Spring, 1903. 

 ' 1903. 

 * 1902. 

 ' 1903. 

 ' 1896. 



1896, 

 ' 1896. 

 ' 1896. 

 ' 1896. 



1896. 

 ' • 1896. 



Date of 



first 

 fruiting. 



1912 

 1909 

 1908 

 1911 

 1907 

 1907 

 1907 

 1905 

 1905 

 1905 

 1903 



R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 

 R. 



Fruit 

 described. 



1913, 

 1915, 

 1913, 

 1912, 

 1908, 

 1908, 

 1908, 

 1906, 

 1906, 

 1906, 

 1906, 



294. 

 599. 

 295. 

 92. 

 101. 

 102. 

 102. 

 107. 

 108. 

 109. 

 109. 



The following names recorded first in the Annual Report of the Experimental 

 Farms for 1906 were given to seedling varieties of Russian origin, descriptions of 

 which have not yet been published. These were among the best and apparently the 

 hardiest of 3,000 trees. They have been sent to the prairie provinces for trial and 

 should any of them prove promising descriptions will appear in the annual reports. 

 Areola, Birtle, Bowie, Bolton, Beaver, Bomba, Bison, Carlyle, Carman, Cicero, Cecil, 

 Carrie, Crescent, Cottage, Dauphin, Dewar, Earliana, Grenfell, Hanley, Hamlet, Har- 

 binger, Jarvis, Jasper, Jacko, Lang, Leroy, Mentor, Melfort, Morden, Murillo, Morley, 

 Nipigon, Osier, Otter, Pingree, Ponoka, Parma, Polaris, Roslin, Rawdon, Selkirk, 

 Snelling, Solina, Sorley, Sanford, Souris, Selwyn, Vesta, Virgil, Varna, Virdeii, 

 Woburn and Wesley — 53 varieties. 



CHARACTERS OF SEEDLING APPLES ORIGINATED IN THE 

 HORTICULTURAL DIVISION. 



As descriptions are taken of the seedling apples which are originated in the Horti- 

 cultural Division whether they are large or small or good, medium, or poor in quality, 

 - it is possible to tell after a time what parents are giving the largest proportion of 

 good seedlings and which the smallest. In the following table certain characters of 

 1211 seedlings from twelve varieties are given in such a form that tl"tey can be easily 

 compared. These seedlings were raised from seed saved from apples which fruited 

 at Ottawa in 1898. The flowers were not hand-pollinated and the male parents can 

 only be suggested by the' characters of the seedlings and the varieties which grew 

 nearest to the tree from which the seed was taken, and of which there is a record. 

 While the male parent is thus not known with certainty, a study of the following table 

 will be found very interesting. The characters of the seedlings of a few of tlie.:e 

 varieties have been published in previous annual reports, but more trees of these have 

 fruited since. The descriptions were all made by the writer, hence the same relative 

 values are more likely to be given to the characters of the different seedlings than 

 if several persons, having different standards, had described them. The notes and 

 figures under Resemblance do not apply to all the seedlings described. If a character 

 of a female parent was conspicuous in the seedling it was noted but,' no doubt, there 

 were many slight resemblances which were not noted, hence the percentageo after the 

 various headings under Resembldnce are merely suggestive; but all the other char- 

 acters were recorded for all the seedlings. 



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