722 



Journal of Agriculture. 



[lo Nov., 1909. 



Seedling, Northern Spy, and Adams' 

 Pearmain. Pears were a patciiy crop : 

 Vicar of Winkfield on the whole aver- 

 ageil about a medium crop; VViuterCole. 

 light ; and the row of mixed varieties 

 carried a very fair crop. Cherry plums 

 were also light, but the Japanese were 

 heavy. Raspberries turned out very 

 well, considering the dry weather ex- 

 perienced during the picking season. 

 Both red and black currants yielded 

 good crops of fruit of first class quality, 

 some of the latter being especially fine 

 Taking the orchard as a whole, the 

 yield was very satisfactory. The 

 total sales for the year amounted to 

 £188 i8s. 



Woolly Aphis has again made its 

 appearance on a few trees of seveial 

 varieties. Red Spider and Musse 

 Scale are present on sevei'al trees, but 

 I intend to spray for these with crude 

 petroleum. I am sorry to say that the 

 codlin moth is in the orchard, but only 

 to a slight extent. During the coming 

 season I intend to adopt means to 

 stamp out this pest. Having been in- 

 formed that Black Spot had in previous 

 years been very bad in both apples 

 and peai's I took extra precautions and 

 sprayed the whole of the trees twice 

 with Bordeaux mixture, the result 

 being an almost perfectly clean crop 

 of fruit, only a few odd specimens 

 showing traces of that disease. 



Vegetable Garden. — Though a fairly 

 large amount of vegetables has been 

 produced, success has not been as great 

 as might have been expected, chiefly 

 owing to the dry season and a shortage 

 of water. Cabbages did only faii'ly 

 well ; they suttered a good deal from 

 the ravages of blight and cabbage moth, 

 the dry season being favourable to both 

 these pests. Peas generally did well 

 all through the season, especially the 

 late crop on the flat. 'J'he same 

 remark applies to French beans, which 

 stood the dry weather very well, and 

 bore good crops. Onions only did 

 fairly well, the weather being too drv 

 for successful onion culture. 



