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STRAWBHRRY EXPERIMENTS AT GUELPH. 



URING the season of 1896, 

 P' ■" '^utt carefully tei ^d one 

 nd twenty vi. ties 

 ries, and as a result 

 was able in excellent paper 



for our meetiii^ at Kingston. In our 

 engraving of the Garden at the College, 

 may be seen the strawberry plot, with 

 the stakes indicating the varieties, twelve 

 plants of each being planted for the ex- 

 perimental purposes. 



We quote the portion of the paper 



referring to early, late and large-sized 

 varieties, as follows : 



Eaklv \'arieties. 



The first two or three pickings from a 

 good early variety often prove more pro 

 fitahle than the whole crop from a later 

 variety. In the following list the best 

 early varieties are ranked in the order of 

 their yield for three pickings previous to 

 June 15 



Fan Deman {B.) — 

 A good grower and 

 fairly free from rust. 

 i\n early, perfect 

 bloomer, one of the 

 best to fertilize early 

 pistillates ; season of 

 fruiting extra early ; 

 ranks first for early 

 yield. The fruit is 

 uniformly of good size and very hand- 

 some, of a rich dark crimson color and 



varnished appearance ; firm and of good 

 <iuality; should be in every collection. 



Mk/id's Early (B) ^ 

 A rampant grower, but 

 rusts badly. Ranks 

 third as an early yieliler. 

 The fruit is small, of 

 poor color, and lacks in 

 firnmess. Very gener- 

 ally grown but cannot 

 e(]ual Van Deman as Pi'- H'-'T. 

 an early variety. 



MiCllKI.'s K.\K1.V. 



