THE 



Canadian Horticulturist. 



1898. 



No. 5 



STRAWBERRY TESTS AT GUELPH. 



BOUT a year ago. 

 we gave our read- 

 ers a sketch of 

 Professor Hutt's 

 work at the Agri- 

 cultural College, 

 and his preparation 

 for it. We are now 

 enabled to give a 

 fine full page picture of him, and at the 

 same time some extracts from his last 

 report on Strawberries, with the engrav- 

 ings made from photographs, all of 

 which appeared in the last College 

 Report, just sent out by the Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Test of Varieties of Strawberries. 



For the past two years we have been 

 testing varieties of Strawberries. In 

 last year's report the results are given 

 of a trial of 1 2 1 of these. This year we 

 had 150 varieties in fruiting, and have 



added eighty to our collection to fruit 

 next year. The results with many of 

 these during the past two years have 

 shown them to be of little or no value, 

 and if next season's yields confirm these 

 results such varieties will be placed on 

 our discarded list. On the other hand, 

 a number have made excellent records 

 for both seasons, and if, after repeated 

 trials, these records are maintained, such 

 varieties may with confidence be recom- 

 mended to intending planters. 



The treatment given in these experi- 

 ments may be briefly outlined as follows : 

 The ground on which the strawberries 

 were planted was cropped the previous 

 season with onions, beets and carrots, 

 during which time it was kept as free as 

 possible of weeds. It was plowed in the 

 fall after the removal of these crops, and 

 top-dressed during the winter with short, 

 barnyard manure. As soon as the land 

 was fit to work in the spring it was 



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