DiriSIOX OF HORTICULTIRE 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 

 Some Weather Observations taken at Charlottetown Experimental Station, 1915. 



HOKTICULTUEAL AKEA. 



The land and grounds devoted to horticulture including wood lots and avenues, is 

 about 24 acres. Further time was spent in fixing up these wood lots and shelter belts 

 so that the white birches should have the prominence they deserve, as some of our 

 most beautiful trees. 



LAEGE FEUITS. 



APPLES. 



The following varieties set out in 1910 began bearing fruit in 1915 : Ontario, 

 Northwestern Greening, Eibston Pippin, Langford Beauty and the Hyslop crab tree. 

 The trees were sprayed while dormant, just as the buds showed signs of breaking, and 

 twice with the summer-strength lime-sulphur spray. A power sprayer was used and 

 insects and fungous diseases controlled. A medium crop of clean fruit was harvested 

 from the old orchard. The fruit on the Eed Astrachan made very poor growth and 

 never acquired its usual flavor. The growth of the new apple orchard has been slow, 

 probably due to the heavy clay hard pan that underlies that section of the orchard. 



CHERRIES. 



The cherries were more than a week later in blooming in 1915 than in 1913, when 

 they were three or four days earlier than in 1914. The trees have made a splendid 

 growth and bloomed fairly well. Almost every tree bore some fruit and a number bore 

 a fair amount, but the birds took it before it matured. The trees have remained free 

 from fungous diseases except a few cases of crotch canker. 



jg 4g Charlottetown. 



