986 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7 GEORGE V, A. 1917 

 FLOWERS. 



The following flowers were under test this season at this Station. The more tender 

 varieties were sown under glass on April 14 to 17. The hardier rarieties were sown in 

 open ground from April 30 to the middle of May. The severe frost of June gave most 

 of them a severe setback, but while a number were killed, those that escaped this 

 frost came along nicely and produced a profusion of blooms which were much admired 

 by the visitors to the Station. All were in bloom until the severe frost of September 18. 



The following are the names of the different varieties under test, and dates when 

 first in bloom: — 



Pansies on 1-year old plants were in bloom April 17. 



On the 30th of April there were transplanted from the old flower garden a num- 

 ber of Dianthus of the different varieties. These were in bloom from the 6th to the 

 14th of July and continued in bloom until well into the autumn. 



Variety. 



Antirrhinum, dwarf 



Antirrhinum, fancy mixed 



Aster, Semple's mixed 



Aster, Daybreak, mixed 



Aster, Pink Beauty 



Aster, Truffauts Paeony Flowered 



Aster, Giant Comet 



Brachy come. Swan River Daisy 



Calendula, mixed 



Calliopsis, mixed 



Candytuft 



Centaurea imperialis, or Cornflower, all colours 



Celosia, killed by frost in June. 



Chrysanthemum, annual 



Clarkia 



Cosmos, only one was left after the frost 



Dimorphotheca, or South African Daisy 



Daisy, Snowball 



Eschscholtzia, mixed, California Poppy 



Lobelia tenuior 



Linum, or Flowering Flax 



Marigolds, mixed 



Marigolds, dwarf mixed 



Mignonette, finest mixed 



The three varieties of Nasturtiums were just coming in bloom when the first frost 

 occurred in September. 



Nicotiana afflnis Jirly 14. 



Pansies, mixed, sown in the open-ground May 2. 



Pansies, Giant Flowered July 12 and l.=i. 



Phacelia " 26. 



Petunias, mixed " 8. 



Phlox Drummondii " 2. 



Abronia umbellata August 2. 



Nolana " 2. 



Poppies, Improved Shirley July 12. 



Poppies, Cardinal " 15. 



Poppies, Double " 10. 



Hudbeckia speciosa bicolor August 9. 



Rhodanthe July 22. 



SalpiglOBSis " 26. 



Scabi«sa August 11. 



Stocks, Ten Weeks, mixed July 12. 



Stock*. Dwarf " 14. 



Verbena, mixed " 16.' 



Zinnia, Improved Mammoth. All killed by the June frost. 



Helichrysum, mixed August 4. 



Schizanthus July 2. 



Arctotis .. August 2. 



Fort Vermilion. 



