7 GEORGE V SESSIONAL PAPER No. 1S A. 1917 



LlJiRARY 



^EW YO£>K 



bOTANFJAL 



REPORT OF THE DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 



Ottawa, March 31, 1916. 

 J. H. Grisdale, Esq., B.Agr., 



Director, Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit herewith the twenty-ninth annual report of 

 the Division of Horticulture, being the eighteenth since I took charge of the Division. 



There will be found included in this report7 the reports -of the work at the Cen- 

 tral Earm, Ottawa, and those which have been written by the Superintendents of the 

 Experimental Farms and Stations at Charlottetown, P.E.I. ; Nappan, IST.S.; Kent- 

 ville, N.S.; Fredericton, N.B. ; Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Que.; Cap Rouge, Que. 

 Lennoxville, Que. ; Brandon, Man. ; Indian Head, Sask. ; Rosthern, Sask. ; Scott, Sask. 

 Lethbridge, Alta. ; Lacombe, Alta.; Invermere, B.C.; Summerland, B.C.; Agassiz, B.C. 

 Sidney, B.C. There is also a report from Thos. A. Sharpe, Salmon Arm, B.C., and from 

 the Sub-Station at Fort Vermilion, Peace River dietrict, Alta.; Grouard, Lesser Slave 

 lake, Alta. : Grande Prairie, Alta., and Fort Resolution, Fort Providence and Fort 

 Smith in Northern Alberta. There is also a report of some tests made by Dr. Wm. 

 Greene, Hudson Hope, Peace River, B.C. 



The report of the horticultural work on the Central Farm has again been divided, 

 as in the two previous years. The introductory and more general matter and some of 

 the details with which I have had intimate association were prepared by myself, while 

 most of the experimental work is reported upon by the assistants in charge of special 

 parts of the work. The Assistant in Vegetable Gardening being still at the front, his 

 work is being looked after by the Assistant in Pomology, who has prepared a report 

 upon the work in Vegetable Gardening for the year. 



BRAXCH FARMS. 



A considerable part of the writer's time, each year, is taken up in either visiting 

 the Branch Farms and Stations, or in work connected with them at Ottawa, such as 

 the ordering of material for them and arranging to ship supplies from Ottawa; and 

 in editing the horticultural reports sent in by the Superintendents. There is also 

 much correspondence with the Superintendents in regard to many things throughout 

 the year. Every week the Superintendent sends a report to Ottawa giving an account 

 of the work done the previous week, which enables the Horticultural Division to keep 

 in close touch with the work. All records of horticultural experiments at the branch 

 Farms and Stations are kept in duplicate and one copy is sent to the Central Farm 

 each year when such data as are required for reference at Ottawa are copied on to 

 cards, the whole forming a central card index system which makes it easy to refer to 

 anything connected with horticulture at any of the Farms or Stations. 



Following a meeting of the Superintendents at Ottawa in January, 19i5, for the 



discussion of the work, I prepared a series of cultural experiments with vegetables, 



^ which it was proposed to carry out at all the Farms and Stations. These experiments 



CJ^ were begun in 1915 and will be continued for from three to five years, aod already 



very useful results have been obtained. 



A visit to the western Farms and Stations was made in the spring of 1915, and 

 * again in the summer. 



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