REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



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Planting around Superintendent's House. 



Of the 27 varieties of trees and 49 varieties of ornamental shrubs planted around 

 the superintendent's house in the spring of 1893 only the following varieties have winter 

 killed : — 



Mountain ash (Pyrus Americana), Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris), Beech (Fagus 

 ferruginea), Thunberg's barberry (Berberis Thunbergii). 



Last spring the following varieties were added to the collection, and nearly all of 

 them had become established before winter set in : — 



trees. 



Siberian Cedar, 

 Choke cherry, 

 Basket Willow, 

 Pyrus Baccata, 

 Manitoba Bass wood, 

 Cottonwood, 

 Russian Euonymus, 

 Native Thorn, 



Riga Pine, 



Native Red Willow, 



Blue Spruce, 



Black Ash, 



Green Ash, 



Red Ash, 



Yellow Pine, 



Dwarf Mountain Pine. 



SHRUBS. 



Native Sumac, 

 Lonicera Tatarica, 

 do Alberti, 



do Media, 

 do Splendens, 

 Amur Tamarix, 

 Russian Privet, 

 Prunus Padus, 

 Bitter sweet, Native, 

 Rosemary Willow, 

 Pyrus Toringo, 

 Prunus Maackii, 



Alnus incana, 

 Improved Elderberry, 

 White Tartarian Honeysuckle, 

 Rosa Rugosa, single, 



do do double, 

 Artemisia Lancieolata, 

 Caragana grandiflora, 

 Lilac, Ambrose Yerschaffeldt, 



do Flora plena, 



do Beranger, 

 Spirea Callosa Alba. 



Success with Tree-cuttings. 



Below will be found a table giving the results of a comparative test between fall 

 and spring cuttings of forest trees and shrubs. 



The fall made cuttings were packed in sand until planting time in sprint. 



All were planted deep allowing only one bud out of the ground, all cuttings were 

 eight inches long. 



