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1. May Duke. 



1, Windsor. 



1. Mezel. 



1. Early Eichraond. 



1. Yellow Spanish. 



CHERRIES. 



1. Lieb. 



1. Black Eagle. 



1. Black Tartarian. 



1. Knight's Early Black. 



2. Brown Turkey. 



FIGS. 



2. Early Violet. 



ORANGE. 



1. Satsuma Orange from Japan. 

 All of these trees made a good growth. 



GRAPE VINES. 



2. Rogers 34. 2. Clinton. 



3. Worden. 2. Delaware. 

 2. Brighton. 



These have all made a very fair growth. 



The land on the bench being warm and dry and earlier than that on the level, 

 this was done before the level land was sufficiently thawed to allow of its being 

 worked. 



As soon as the frost was out of the level land harrowing was begun with the 

 disk and drag harrows, and after getting the ground well harrowed down, it was 

 cross ploughed and again thoroughly harrowed when the fruit trees received and 

 heeled in last fall were planted and plots sown with wheat, oats, barley and roots. 



GRAIN. 



The varieties of fall wheat, and rye, sown last fall have all done fairly well, 

 considering that the land could not be got in good condition, in the short time we 

 had to prepare it previous to planting. 



Fall Wheat. 



Date when 

 Sown. 



1889. 



Manchester Oct. 30 . 



Tasmania do 31 . 



Democrat Nov. 1 . 



Garter's Hybrid A Dec. IS. 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



B. 

 C. 

 D. 



do 18, 



, { do 

 . ! do 



20. 



20. 



F i do 20. 



G I do 21. 



IH do 21. 



J do 21. 



K do 21 . 



Fall Rye. 



Giant Reading Nov. 4 



Polar 1 do 4. 



Number 



of Pounds 



Sown. 



Number 

 of Pounds 

 Harvested. 



do 

 do 



6i 



5i 



6 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



5i 

 5i 



133 

 93 

 98 

 29 

 31 

 20 

 24 

 28 

 22 

 24 

 18 

 28 



92 

 100 



The varieties of spring grain were sown on land newly i-eclaimed and could not 

 be expected to do much under such conditions. The general experience of the old 

 settlers in British Columbia goes to show that it takes two or three years of cultiva- 

 tion to get this fern land into condition, to do itself justice, and the experience 

 gained this year on the Experimental Farm confirms this view. I ho])e, however, 

 to be able to shorten this time somewhat, as arrangements have been made with the 



