52 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



to make a gradual descent to the base of the hill For the next 500 feet the surface of 

 the land was about level and the soil of a moist, peaty nature. The rest of the land 

 was more or less stony or gravelly. In places where the solid rock came too near the 

 surface, a coating of soil was put over it sufficient to start the young trees, and any very 

 uneven places were filled in with soil. The land was ploughed and harrowed and the 

 stones taken off before the trees were planted. 



The forest belt was completed to Preston Street before winter set in, thus making 

 a continuous belt about sixty feet in width along the northern boundary of the farm, 

 with the exception of the breaks caused by a roadway and the Prescott and Ottawa 

 Railway. Even now, before the trees have made any growth, the improvement made 

 by the levelling of the land and the planting of the trees is very marked. 



The following is a list of the species planted and the number of trees of each 

 species — 



ADDITIONS TO MIXED POKEST BELT. 



Acer platanoides — Norway maple 62 



Acer Pseudoplatanus — Sycamore maple 1 



Acer Saccharinum — Sugar Maple 113 



^Esculus Hippocastanum — Horse-chestnut 22 



Betula papyrif era — Canoe birch 180 



Euonymus atropurpureus — Burning bush 11 



Fraxinus Americana — White ash 186 



" pubescens — Red ash 323 



" sambucifolia — Black ash 225 



Gymnocladus Canadensis — Kentucky coffee-tree 10 



v Juglans nigra — Black walnut 71 



Larix Americana — American larch 146 



Negundo aceroides — Box elder 366 



Pinus Cembra — Swiss stone pine 15 



' ' Mughus — Mountain pine 77 



ponderosa — Heavy wooded or Bull pine 83 



Strobus — White or Weymouth pine 83 



sylvestris Rigaensis — Riga pine 160 



Picea alba — White spruce 48 



" excelsa — Norway spruce 437 



" pungens — Rocky Mountain blue spruce 68 



Pseudotsuga Douglasii — Douglas' spruce 124 



Pyrus Aucuparia — European Mountain ash 11 



Quercus alba — White oak 53 



Tsuga Canadensis — Hemlock spruce : 3 



Thuya occidentalis — Common arbor-vitae ; 139 



Ulnnis Americana — White elm ; 353 



" racemosa — Rock elm 72 



Total 3,442 



TREES IN FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



Now that the forest belt along the northern boundary is completed a list of all the 

 trees in the various forest plantations may be given. 

 The following summary is submitted : — 



Trees. 



Forest belt along western boundary 9,701 



Mixed forest belt along northern boundary, older plantations 2,329 



Mixed forest belt along northern boundary, plantations of 1893 3,511 



" " " " of 1894 3,442 



Evergreen clump 1,856 



Total number 20,839 



ADDITIONS TO TREES AND SHRUBS ON ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS. 



During the spring of 1894 the work of planting additional trees and shrubs on the 

 ornamental grounds was carried on. Several new clumps were arranged and a number 



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