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Champion, Worden, Winchell, Delaware, Lindley, and Moyer 

 • — I vine of each. 



Experiment Mo. 10. Apples — (For ^Southern Ontario) 

 Primate, Gravenstein, Mcintosh, Blenheim, Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, and Northern Spy — i tree of each. 



Experiment No. 11. Apples — (For *Northern Ontario) 

 Transparent, Duchess, Wealthy, Mcintosh, Scott's Winter, and 

 Hyslop Crab — i tree of each. 



The plants for this distribution are purchased from nursery- 

 men who make a specialty of growing good plants and putting 

 them up in good condition for distribution by mail. We are 

 obliged to make use of the mail, because in many cases the ex- 

 perimenters live so far from express offices that it would not be 

 practicable to send the plants in that way. Applications for 

 plants are filed in the order in which they are received until the 

 appropriation for the purchase of plants is exhausted. When 

 sufficient applications have been received to make up the lists of 

 those to whom plants will be sent, circulars are sent acknowl- 

 edging receipt of application and informing the applicant that 

 plants will be sent by mail in proper time for planting. Special 

 directions are also furnished for conducting the experiment with 

 each kind of fruit and blank forms are furnished upon which 

 to report results at the end of the season. 



For a copy of these cultviral directions for the various fruits 

 and more general information regarding the work, we must 

 refer our readers to the last Annual Report ( 1906) of the Ex- 

 perimental Union. 



A record is kept in the office of the Horticulturist giving 

 the name and address of each experimenter, the kind of plants 

 sent him for testing, and a brief record each year of his report 

 upon the same. Naturally, many experimenters who receive 

 plants fail to report after two or three years, although there are 

 many who have been engaged in this work almost from its be- 

 ginning and have been sending in regular reports. In this way 

 we have a list of careful experimenters all over the Province, 



*This division of the Province into North and South may be ap- 

 proximately made by a line running from Collingwood to Kingston. 



