THE FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



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rency. English Alorello, .May Duke, and 

 Windsor. 



Grapes : Worden, Concord, Delaware, 

 Lindley, Niagara, Aloore's Diamond. 



Currants : Red — Wilder, Cherry, Po- 

 mona, New \'ictoria. North Star. Black — 

 Saunders, Naples, Collins' Prolihc. White 

 — White Grape and Imperial. 



Raspberries : ^Marlboro, Miller, Cuth- 

 bert, and Louden. 



Gooseberries : Industry and Downing. 



Fruit trees on the whole wintered fairly 

 Avell in this section^ and the crop last year 

 was about up to the average. In Mr. 

 Peart's apple orchard the crop of Ribston 

 was exceptionally fine. His plum orchard 

 has suffered severely with shot-hole fungus 

 during the past two or three seasons, and 

 most of the trees will not survive another 

 year. The young experimental pear or- 

 chard set out six or seven years ago is com- 

 ing nicely into bearing ; a number of new 

 varieties were fruiting last year for the first 

 time. The black rot of the grape made its 

 appearance in this section last year as well 

 as in the Niagara district. The crop in 

 Mr. Peart's vineyard was more or less 

 severely injured. 



THE LAKE HURON STATION. 



An excellent general collection of fruits 

 for experimental work has been started at 

 this station by Mr. Sherrington, the experi- 

 menter. It is made up oi 75 varieties of 

 apples, 35 of pears, 45 of plums, 25 of cher- 

 ries, 20 of raspberries, 15 of blackberries, 



verity of the winter and also from the 

 drought in that section last summer. Plums 

 and cherries had suffered from winter kill- 

 ing more than any other fruits, and there 

 was no crop in the trees left. Strange to 

 say the Japan plums had, with few excep- 

 tions, proved more hardy than the European 

 varieties. This has been clearly shown at 

 a number of the other stations. 



THE GEORGIAN BAY STATION. 



Mr. John Mitchell, of Clarksburg, the 

 experimenter at this station, has a good 

 general collection of apples, pears, peaches, 

 etc., but special attention has been given to 

 plums, of which about 170 varieties have 

 been under test. The trees here, as in 

 most other sections of the province, had 

 suft'ered more or less from winter killing, 

 particularly in the old orchard where they 

 were heavily loaded in 1903. The crop 

 last year was comparatively light. A num- 

 ber of the Japan plums have, for several 

 years, been fruiting heavily, and last winter 

 they stood well while a number of the Euro- 

 pean varieties succumbed to the severity of 

 the weather. 



The following is a list of the European 

 varieties which Mr. Mitchell recommends 

 as having done the best with him : Wash- 

 ington, Imperial Gage, Bradshaw, Quacken- 

 bos. Archduke, Diamond, Monarch, Yellow 

 Egg, Coe's Golden Drop, and Reine Claude. 



The Japan plums he finds are not nearly 

 so saleable as those of the European class 

 just mentioned. The following he gives as the 



15 of currants, and 6 of gooseberries, and ^^^^ ^^ ^j^^ j^p^^ varieties: Red June, 

 a half dozen or more of strawberries. So 



far ]\Ir. Sherrington has been reporting 

 principally on apples, plums and raspber- 

 ries. At the time of my visit he was in the 

 midst of his small fruit harvest. Currants 

 and gooseberries were an excellent crop. 

 The raspberries had suffered from the se- 



Burbank, and Satsuma. Mr. Mitchell has 

 under test 10 varieties of peaches, all the 

 trees of which bore heavily in 1903, but last 

 winter gave them a severe test, and where 

 the trees were not killed outright the fruit 

 buds were destroyed. 



(To be concluded in March issue.) 



I am glad to find The Horticulturist so much The Canadian Horticulturist is a welcome 



liuproved. It is the best of its kind. — (A. J. visitor in our house. — (W. T. Patulla, Cree- 

 Collii.s, Listowel, Ont. more, Ont. 



