SOMETHING FOR THE MARKET GARDENER. 



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fruit to some extent." said Mr. Mahony. I am satisfied there is a bright prospect for 

 •" because the strip of country under the vegetable growers and that they are going 

 mountain where I Hve is well adapted for it, to make money out of their business." 



SOME EXPERIMENTS WITH TOMATOES 



DURING each season comparative 

 trials have been made at the Ver- 

 mont Agricultural Experiment Station to de- 

 termine the relative productiveness of differ- 

 ent varieties of tomatoes grown under iden- 

 tical conditions. The first season's work- 

 included 78 plants of Sutton's Best of ^\11 

 and 74 of New Stone. During 1903-04 

 48 plants of each of these two varieties were 

 grown. In addition to these, 11 plants of 

 Lorillard and eight of Sutton's Best of All 

 were grown on the side bench for compari- 

 son. J'aken.as a whole the trial, the results 

 of which have just been made known, indi- 

 cates little difference in productiveness be- 

 tween Sutton's Best of All and New Stone, 

 with the advantage slightly in favor of the 

 latter. In the case of Lorillard and Sut- 

 ton's Best of All the results of one season's 

 trial are decidedlv in favor of the former. 



As to earliness the average number and 

 weight of large and small ripe fruit pro- 

 duced by the Sutton and New Stone plants 

 during the first year did not vary materially. 

 A comparison by months shows that in 

 March, during the latter portion of which 

 some ripe fruit was picked, Sutton's Best of 

 All gave the better yields of both large and 

 small fruits. The increase in large fruits 

 was small, about three per cent., while that 

 in the total product was 7 per cent. Dur- 

 ing April the yield of large fruits from New 

 Stone exceeded that of Sutton's Best of All 

 by 15 per cent., and in total yield by nearly 

 13 per cent. 



In one season's trial Lx>rillard proved su- 

 perior in every respect to Sutton's Best of 

 All. Lorillard is apparently the earliest 

 and most prolific for forcing purposes of the 

 three varieties tested. 



A MARKET GARDENER'S EXPERIENCE 



"1 



HAVE seven acres under market gar- 

 den and orchard," said ]\Ir. G. 

 Nicholson, of Toronto, to a representative 

 of The Canadian Horticulturist. " I raise 

 all kinds of vegetables and dispose of most 

 of my product to peddlers. 



" Vegetables are grown in the orchard. 

 Where the trees are close spinach does well. 

 I had 4.000 cauliflower last year, which did 

 well and headed up finely. I make them 

 white 'by tying up. My tomatoes rotted 

 badly. A considerable quantity of early 

 potatoes are raised, for which I obtain as 

 high as $1.70 a bushel. They are started 

 in hotbeds and transplanted when the 

 sprouts are about two inches high. Last 

 year I lost a portion of the crop by the pota- 

 to bug. A neisfhbor lost five acres. Paris 



green kills the tender plants. 



" Club root did considerable damage to 

 my cabbages. A\'hen the head has formed, 

 and before it gets hard club root forms and 

 the plant dies. I have not found a remedy. 

 Salt or lime is said to be good, but I have 

 not tried them. 



" In the orchard apples, pears and cher- 

 ries are grown. There are very few early 

 apples, mine being principally winter varie- 

 ties. Spys are not worth growing. They 

 command a good price, but the trees are 

 small producers. Greenings are the most 

 satisfactory. I do not spray, as I find culti- 

 vation gives as satisfactory results. Some 

 people complain of worms in their cherries, 

 but they have never injured mine." 



