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trees of the same sizes and vaj-ieties. The following are the agencies to which trees 

 were sent : — 



Assiniboine, 



Battle Eiver, 



Blackfoot, 



Piegan, 



Edmonton, 



File Hills, 



Muscowpetung Eeservation, 



Touchwood Hills, 



Stony Reservation, 



Duck Lake, 



Battlefoi-d, 

 Birtle, 



Blood Reservation, 

 Crooked Lakes, 

 Fort Felly, 

 Moose Mountain, 

 Onion Lake, 

 Sarcee Reservation, 

 Saddle Lake, 

 Carlton. 



By request of Fred. White, Esq., Comptroller of the North- West Mounted 

 Police, about 3,500 trees of the same size as those sent to the Indian agencies and 

 Canadian Pacific Railway gardens were distributed to the officers commanding at the 

 following posts: Regina, Maple Creek, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Macleod, Calgary, 

 Fort Saskatchewan, Battleford and Prince Albert. The results, showing the relative 

 success of these trees as compared with seedlings raised in the districts surround- 

 ing the above named places, and those planted as yearlings cannot foil to prove ins- 

 tructive and useful. The subjoined list gives the varieties used in this distribution. 



Deciduous Trees. 



White ash. 



Green ash, 



European white ash. 



American elm. 



White birch. 



Canoe birch. 



American mountain ash. 



European mountain ash. 



Norway maple. 



Soft maple. 



Butternut. 



Wild black cherry. 



European alder. 



European linden. 



Russian mulberry. 



European larch. 



Barberry. 



Artemesia. 



SpirsBa. 



Fraxinus viridis. 

 Fraxiuus Americana. 

 Fraxinus excelsior. 

 Ulraus Americana. 

 Betula alba, 

 BetuUi papyracea. 

 Pyrus Americana. 

 Pyrus aucuparia. 

 Acer platanoides. 

 Acer dasycarpum. 

 Juglans cinerea. 

 Prunus serotina. 

 Alnus glutinosa. 

 Tilia Europea. 

 Morus hybrida. 

 Larix Europea. 



Shrubs. 



Berbris vulgaris. 

 Artemesia abrotans var ? 

 Spiraa3 opulifolia. 



Norway spruce. 

 White spruce. 

 Scotch pine. 

 Austrian pine. 

 White pine. 

 Arbor vitse. 



Evergreen Trees. 



Abies excelsa. 

 Abies alba. 

 Pinus sylvestris. 

 Pinus austriaca. 

 Pinus strobus. 

 Thuja occidentalis. 



DISTRIBUTION OF TREE SEEDS. 



Considerable quantities of native tree seeds have been collected by the superin- 

 tendents of the Brandon and Indian Head Farms, Messrs. Bedford and MacKay. 



