1922.] 



Test of Varieties of Fruit. 



847 



actual yields may be affected by weather conditions after 1st 

 October : — 



Potatoes. 



Turnips cmd Swedes. 



Manyolds. 



Ceunties. 



Forecast, 



Ten Years' 



Forecast, 



Ten Years' 



Forecast, 



Ten Years 





1922. 



Average. 



1922. 



Av' rage. 



1922. 



Average. 





Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Tons. 



Eastern 



. (;-9 



0-0 



13-5 



10-3 



21-3 



16-7 



North-Eastern . 



7-8 



6-2 



12-7 



11-0 



19-5 



17-8 



South-Eastern . 



7-3 



5-7 



14-2 



10-9 



21-6 



18-7 



East Midland . 



G-6 





10-() 



IM 



18-1 



18-1 



West Midland . 



.. 7-0 



5-8 



134 



13-5 



22(; 



21-7 



iSouth- Western. 



.. 6-5 



5-5 



13-8 



12-8 



21-5 



21-5 



Northern 



. 6-0 



5-2 



14-7 



12-9 



15-1 



16-5 



North- Western. 



()-9 



0-8 



13-5 



16-7 



18-6 



21-0 



North Wales . 



6-4 



5-3 



11-7 



14-6 



15-5 



17-2 



South AVales . 



6-9 



0-3 



ll-o 



14-1 



15-9 



17-0 



England 

 AND Wales 



7-0 



6-0 



13-2 



12-3 



20-2 



18- 



Test of Varieties 

 of Fruit for 

 Commercial 

 Purposes. 



The Ministry and the Koyal Horticultural Society have set 

 up a Joint Committee to administer a scheme for the official 



testing of new varieties of fruit for com- 

 mercial purposes. Under the scheme the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society's Gardens at 

 Wisley will serve as the Central Station, at 

 which all varieties will be tested in the first 

 instance. In later years varieties selected as showing merit will 

 be sent for further testing to sub-stations which the Committee 

 hope to establish in various fruit districts throughout the country. 



Tests will be confined for the present to hardy fruits — apples, 

 pears, plums, cherries, gooseberries, currants, raspberries, straw- 

 berries, etc., and also nuts. 



The Committee is now prepared to receive applications for the 

 reception of plants, buds, and grafts sufficient to allow the 

 following number of trees, bushes and plants to be grown of 

 ^ach varietv : — 



20 Half standard. 



'plus 20 Bushes. 



10 Half standard. 



Currants, gooseberries, raspberries 



and other berries ... ... 20 Bushes. 



Strawberries ... ... ... ... 100 Plants. 



Apples and pears 

 Plums, cherries and nuts 



