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As the same i*esult was also experienced with maple and ash seed sown in the 

 fall of 1888, it is evidently not advisable to sow these seeds in the fall or too early 

 in the spring. 



A quantity of oak nuts and other native tree seeds sown at the same time did 

 not germinate till late in the spring, and a lai-ge number of seedlings from the>;e 

 • were living when winter set in, but were too small to allow of an exact account 

 being taken. 



In May of this year another lot of maple seed was sown in rows 3 feet apart, 

 and covered lightly with the plough; these germinated at once, with the result, that 

 about 50,000 seedlings have been obtained from this sowing. 



Seeing the hardiness of the native trees, and i-ealizing the importance of securing 

 a large supply for the purpose of wind-breaks and for distribution, a largo number 

 of elm and other seedlings were procured in the fall of 1890, and of these 13,000 

 were sent to the Experimental Farm at Ottawa and Indian Head, and 5,000 were 

 distributed amongst farmers in different parts of the province, in answer to applica- 

 tions from them. 



In the spring of 1891 a further supply of seedlings of birch, spruce, etc., was 

 secured from the bush near here, and, with the remainder of those gathered in the 

 fall of 1890, were planted out in nursery rows. In addition to these, the most hardy 

 and desirable of the Eussian poplars and willows have been propagated so as to 

 yield a largo supply of cuttings, which, together with the native seedlings mentioned 

 above, will form a* stock available for planting and distribution during the coming 

 season. 



The following is a list of the tree seedlings raised from seed and otherwise pro- 

 cured during the past year : — 



Maple, ash-leaf (native), grown from'seed 51,955 



Elm, white (native), transplanted from bush near river 9,773 



Birch (native), transplanted from natural bush 2,100 



Spruce (native) do do in sandhills 127 



do seedlings (native), transplanted from natural bush in sandhills 509 



Tamarack (native), transplanted from swamp . .• , . • . 39 



Buffalo berry, transplanted from river flats 128 



do (seedlings), grown from seed 400 



Cherry (Choke), tranbjtlanted from bush 11 



do ground or sandhill, transplanted from sandhills 27 



Oak, grown from seed (about) 2,000 



Virginia creeper or American ivy, transplanted from bush at Oak Lake 150 



Russian willows, grown from cuttings 469 



Caragana, grown from eeed 2,000 



Furze, Scotch do 100 



Small fruits bushes from cuttings 100 * 



Total number of trees, seedlings, etc., growing on the Expei'imental Farm in 

 the fall of 1891, or grown from seed planted in — 



HEDGES FOR WIND-BREAKS. 



In 1889 a hedge of ash-leaf maple was planted near the western boundary of 

 the farm; this has now reached a height of 7 feet, and is found very useful in pro- 

 tecting more tender trees, shrubs, &c., from our severe south-west winds. 



