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PLUM TREES PLANTED IN 1889. 



Plum ti-ees were mostly planted in the exposed plot, and suffered scverelj' by 

 winter. Those surviving were transplanted to the hill plots last spring. This also 

 gave them quite a check. 



A number of native plum trees have been set out ; these will prove useful for 

 grafting purposes. 



GRAPE VINES. 



Alihough vcjy thrift}^ in summer and well covered with earth in the fall, none 

 of the grape vines planted in 1889 survived the winter. A further supply of 100 

 vines composed of 18 varieties were procured in 1890. According to instructions, 

 these were planted in holes 3 feet below the surface, and as the vines gi-ew, the soil 

 was gradually filled in, by this method, placing the roots much deeper than by the 

 ordinary mode of planting. 



Before winter the vines were covered w\th a mound of earth, which will be 

 allowed to remain until late in spi-ing. 



APPLE TREES, &('., PLANTED IN 1890. 



The past season has been more favourable for tree-growing than 1889, and the 

 22 apple and 5 plum trees planted in May of this year were all living when winter 

 set in; of 17 cherry ti'ces phmted, 10 were living. 



Beside the above, 500 apple and 50 pear seedlings raised on the Central Ex- 

 peii mental Farm, Ottawa, from imported Eussianseed, were placed in nursery rows; 

 of these, 340 are living. Those which survive will be grown as seedlings, and it is 

 hoped that some m.ay produce fruit worthy of cultivation. 



On the approach of winter, fruit trees of all kinds were wrapped with straw and 

 tar paper to protect them. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



Of the 96 plants of cultivated varieties, and 12 natives planted on the open 

 prairie in 1889, only 9 were killed b}' the drouth of that year, but the surviving 

 plants of Industry and AVoodward's Whitesmith succumbed to the winter of 1889- 

 00. The remaining varieties were removed to one of the sheltered plots, in April, 

 and have made a thiifty growth -luring the past summer. Houghton's Seedling bore 



