DIVISION OF EORTICULTIRE 



899 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Grown for sets from seed: — 



Variety. 



Large Red Wethersfield 

 Yellow Globe Danvers. 

 Extra Early Red 



Yield of sets from 



one row 100 feet 



in length. 



Lb. 



128 



103 



98 



oz. 

 00 

 00 

 00 



The seeding of onions in rows one foot apart with 200 seeds to the foot gave a 

 remarkable yield of onion sets of the following varieties: Large Red Wethersfield, 

 Yellow Globe Danvers. 



At six cents per pound the yield of sets would be worth at the rate of $3,000 

 per acre. 



PARSXIPS. 



Two varieties of parsnips were grown, Hollow Crown and Vaughan Intermediate. 

 Both were large enough for use on July 29, and both are satisfactory as to yield. 



An experiment similar to that carried on with carrots was conducted in which 

 the parsnips are thinned to different distances apart. The following table gives the 

 yield from a row 33 J feet in length: — 



Variety. 



Distance Thinned. 



Hollow Crown. 



1" 



72 08 



2" 

 lb" 00 



63 00 



PEAS. 



Sixteen varieties of peas were tested in 1915, each in one row 30 feet long. Seed 

 was sown in the open on May 19. The following table arranged in order of yield 

 also shows the relative earliness of these varieties. There is no garden crop which 

 succeeds better than peas under the soil and climatic conditions here, and in no year 

 has there been a failure of this crop and the quality is all that could be desired. 



Aug. 

 July 

 Aug. 



July 



it 



Aug. 

 July 

 Aug. 

 July 



Aug. 



it 



July 

 Aug. 

 July 



Advancer 



Telephone 



Lincoln 



Gradus 



Thomas Laxton... 



Stratagem 



Early Giant 



.luno 



Gregory Surprise. 

 English Wonder... 

 American Wonder 



Heroine 



Dainty Duchess.. 

 Premium Gem. .. 



Quite Content 



Sutton Excelsior.. 



29 06 



28 00 



22 08 



20 08 



19 12 



16 00 



15 14 



14 10 



14 01 



13 05 



11 00 



8 08 



7 13 



7 08 



6 00 



Lacombe. 



