Ontario Sessional Papers, 1908, . s more desirable for home uses; too tenderfor distant shipments. MouNTAix Rose : A fair crop, and delicious for home uses. New Prolific : Ripened early in September, and has borne a fullercrop than Early Crawford for two or three years past; a profitable kind. Old Mixon : An excellent white flesh peach, but inclined to drop early;it follows the Early Crawford very closely, indeed it cometimes drops badlybefore the Crawfords are finished. RiVEES : I had planted this variety very freely, but found the fruit tootender for shipment, and therefore I have t
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1908, . s more desirable for home uses; too tenderfor distant shipments. MouNTAix Rose : A fair crop, and delicious for home uses. New Prolific : Ripened early in September, and has borne a fullercrop than Early Crawford for two or three years past; a profitable kind. Old Mixon : An excellent white flesh peach, but inclined to drop early;it follows the Early Crawford very closely, indeed it cometimes drops badlybefore the Crawfords are finished. RiVEES : I had planted this variety very freely, but found the fruit tootender for shipment, and therefore I have taken out nearly all the trees inthe commercial orchard. Smock : Too late in ripening to sell well this season; a light crop; oftenquite profitable. SxEED : A fine yield this season, and the fruit was even sized and wellcolored; harvested between 20th and end of -July, the very earliest peachwe have, and valuable on that account. TEirMPH : A moderate crop, of fair sized fruit; sold at a fair price forcanning whole; twigs subject to View in >.!. Pettif s Vineyard. Winona. Grape rows half a mile Ions. WENTWORTH FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATION. By M. Pettit, Wixoxa, The cold weather during May and -June did not prevent grapes fromfertilizing better than they have for many years. The jlas.^absoit. Moyer,Lindley, and other imperfect fertilizers were nearly nerfert in bunch: nearlyall of the discarded varieties bore better crops than ever before. 1907 FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 31 There was no grape rot nor srarrelA any mildew, consequently ourexperiments in spraying: did not give results. All varieties grown at thisstation have been fully described in previous reports and further descriptionseems useless. This season again confirms the list of varieties previouslyrerominended for planting for profit in the Niagara District, namely, inorder of ripening:—Champion, Campbell, Worden, Delaware, Lindlej,Moores Diamond, Niagara, Concord, Agawam. Catawba, liogers No. 4, No
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