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Watermelons, Citrons and Cucumbers were sown. The water melons formed no 

 fruit. A few fair sized citrons were on ihe vines and the cucumbers were fit to use 

 when fiorft came. 



AsjJoragus. — First cut on 1st June and continued for a month. 



Iihuba?'b.— Badly injured by hail on 12th June, but a good crop toward end of season. 



FLOWEE GARDEN. 



I trust those who may read this annual i-eport and have never seen the North- 

 West will not imagine a flower garden to be an utter impossibility. Although we 

 have not yet succeeded in making one equal to many seen in Ontario, nevertheless 

 the attempt is being made to grow flowers as well as raise No. 1 Hard wheat. We 

 do not boast much of the success in raising Zinnias, Marigolds, &c., but in Sweet 

 Williams, Pansies, Mignonette, Sweet Peas, Phlox, cVc. visitors to the Farm during 

 August, September and October testified by their button-holes that such ample suc- 

 cess was obtained as to wan-ant every settler in having a flower garden. 



Pansies, Dianthus, Phlox Drummondi, Asters, Stocks, Mignonette, Portulacca, 

 Petunias, Sweet Peas, Verbenas, &c., were sown or transplanted from hot beds from 

 16th May to 11th June. Of these Pansie>, Mignonette, Sweet Peas, Phlox Di-um- 

 mondi. Slocks, Dianthus, Verbenas, and Poppies proved the best and. surest for the 

 North-West climate. 



APPLE TREES. 



Apple trees sufl'ered greatly last winter and this spring, so mnch so that I am 

 compelled to report almost the entire failure of those set out in 1888-89. Numbers 

 are living, but in such a ci-ippled condition that I am almost afraid they may be 

 classed with the lost. Last season was a ver}^ hard one on trees of all kinds and 

 when succeeded by a severe winter and unfavourable spring the result could hardly 

 be anj'thing but disastrous. Only one tree of 1888 planting gi-ew from the tips and 

 that only ^ inch. Eight trees were cut down to the snow-line, or about 18 inches 

 above ground and all but these were killed to the ground. Sprouts have come from 

 above grafts, but whether they will stand any better than the parent trees remains 

 to be seen. 



Those planted in 1889 died by wholesale, but very few being found alive this 

 spring. This year's planting consists of 500 Eussian seedlings, which it is hoped 

 and expected will stand better than any before put out. The following are apple 

 trees planted in 1888, 1889 and 1890, showing state they are in at present : — 



Apple Trees, 1888. 



Alexander 



Wealthy 



Walliridge 



Mclnto.sh Re J... 

 Tolman's Sweei . 

 Keswick Codling 

 Red Astraclian . . 



Anis 



Golden Russet . . . 



Mann 



Duchess 



Scott's Winter... 

 Grimes' Golden.. . 



Tetofsky 



Canada Baldwin . 

 Fameuse 



Planted. 



Killed 



to 



Snow Line. 



Killed 



to 

 Ground. 



Growth 

 from Tops. 



8 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



n 



5 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 6 



64 



Dead. 



