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Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Fruit-culture Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
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not be worth grafting upon. Mr. Pettit intends to replace theui thrifty ones as soon as possible with new vines of the best sorts, and graftthe thrifty ones with some of the old standard kinds, such as Agawam, Lind-ley, and AVilder. 32 THE REPORT OF THE No. 17 The experimental plum trees pla.nted out shortly after the station was<established, have been fruiting for the past two or three years, but the cropthis year was rather light upon most varieties. Mr. Pettit and I went carefully over all the trees, and as far as possibleverified the names of varieties, many of them halving come wrongly named. Mr. Pettit lias a large orchard of pears, and the crop this year of Giffard,Bartlett, Duchess, and Flemish Beauty was exceptionally fine. The Keifferpear orchard at this station, planted nine years ago, is a model one. Thetrees are uniformly thrifty and have been fruiting heavily for several years,tiast year from this orchard of 1,500 trees Mr. Pettit shipped three car-loads of^ne fruit.
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How the Ontario apple jields at Trenton. A six j^ear old tree at W. H. Dempseys, Trenton. Most of Mr. Pettits orchards and vineyards are on heavy red clayey soil,Avhich requires careful management to get the best results; but the cropsraised on it show that, with good management, it excels the light soils forproductiveness. The plan Mr. Pettit adopts is to give clean, thorough culti-vation during the early part of the season, and follow this after July with a•cover crop cf rape and rye. The rape is sown in the alternate rows as soonas cultivation ceases, and the rye is not sown till the fruit is harvested, andtherefore does not interfere at all with the harvesting. The next year the^ape is sown in the rows where the rye was grown the year before, so that hehas an alternation of cover crops. The Grimsby Station. Experimenter, L. Woolverton, Grimsby. Visited July 5th and Sept. 6th. A meeting of the Board of Control washeld at Mr. Woolvertons place on July 5th, at which time his experi

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