DIVISION OF HORTICULTURE 



703 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



TOMATOES. 



Eleven varieties of tomatoes were grown in hills four feet by four feet apart, five 

 plants of each strain. They were picked and recorded as they ripened. On the 28th 

 of September the balance of all the varieties was picked and sold green. The demand 

 for tomfitoes, either ripe or green, is much greater than the supply and the price has 

 been high for several years. Tomatoes need good clean tillage. Manure or fertilizer 

 containing nitrates should be applied very sparingly if the crop is to ripen. It 

 would be much better to manure the land a year or two before planting tomatoes on 

 it. The following were the yields of ripe and green fruit in 1915: — 



Name. 



Prosperity 



Alacrity 



Sunnybrook Strain Earliana 



Mutch Earliana 



Johnson Jack Rose 



Chalk Early Jewel 



Florida Special 



Rennie I^arliest Round Scarlet Skin., 



Bonny Best 



Line Bred Northern Adirondack 



Bolgiano Extra Early 



Date of first 

 ripe fruit. 



SeptemberlG. 



5. 



5. 

 16. 

 18. 

 16. 

 18. 



7. 

 16. 

 17. 



Yield of plot. 



Ripe. 



lb. 



41 

 11 



9 



4 



3 



5 



31 

 4^ 



Green. 



lb. 

 70 

 58 

 54 

 46 

 42 

 35 

 33 

 28 

 29 

 8 

 2 



Total. 



Yield per acre. 



CIJLTUEAL EXPEEIMEXTS. 



A series of cultural experiments was started in' 1915 with a number of the leading 

 vegetables. A few brief notes are here given on the first season's work. Detailed 

 statements will be made after several years' averages have been obtained. 



BEANS. 



A comparison of the relative advantages of a succession of varieties of different 

 seasons with the same variety planted at intervals of a week apart for four weeks gave 

 returns in favour of sowing early and late varieties at the same time rather than 

 several sowings of one variety. 



CABBAGE. 



Tests were made with two varieties of cabbage; Early Jersey Wakefield and 

 Copenhagen Market, to determine the best method of protecting them from the root 

 maggot. Tar felt discs were used in comparison with a cheese cloth covering. A check 

 of each variety was planted alongside. The tar felt saved 4 per cent more than grew 

 without protection. The cheese cloth was expensive and greatly injured the growing 

 plants so that they produced less than half the check rows. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



A similar experiment to the above was tried with cauliflower, using tar felt discs, 

 cheese cloth and checks without protection. The tar felt discs were quite valuable 

 in saving the cauliflower and those protected in this way yielded about one-half more 

 than the check while those protected with cheese cloth produced about one half as 

 much as the check. 



Charlottetowx. 



