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vince a large variety of trees and shrubs. Some trees are especially worthy of 

 notioe for hardiness, as the native ash-leaf maple, native a.ih, oak and white elm, 

 the Eussian poplars and willows, cottonwoods, Russian olivo, mountain ash, alder, 

 Caragana, Scotch pine and white spruce ; whilst for quick growth and length of 

 season in leaf the Eussian poplars and willows and birch of all varieties are very 

 noticeable. On this fai-m we have the Petrovsky poplar 8|- feet high from cuttings 

 planted in 1889, and the Yoronesh willow 7|- feet high Irom Cuttings planted in 

 1890, Some small birch planted in 1889 are now 7 feet high and have made a bushy 

 growth 6 feet across. 



A number of trees were planted in the spring of 1890, in gravelly and light soil, 

 On the exposed prairie at the north end of the farm; of these, only 8 per cent have 

 died. The trees doing best in this soil are cottonwoods, Eussian poplar, Voronesh 

 willow, Eussian olive and native maple and elm. It will be seen by this that the 

 above trees will succeed on all classes of soil in this province. ., 



FoitfKST Trees planted in 1889 and 1890, with number living in Fall of 1891. 



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