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Pears. 



One standard pear tree died since ray last report ; all others, both standard and 

 dwai'f, have made a vigorous growth. 



This year there were received 69 standard and 28 dwarf pear trees ; a number 

 of the standards are of varieties already planted in the pear orchard, but these are 

 for testing on the bench lands, where they will be planted as soon as spring opens. 



The collection of standard pears consists now of 54 varieties and 248 trees, and 

 dwarf pears of 22 varieties and QQ trees. * 



Plums and Prunes. 



All the plum trees mentioned in my report of last year are alive^ and have made 

 a very vigorous growth, and two trees, one each of the Damson and Moore's Ai'ctic, 

 fruited this yeai-, and if no unfavourable conditions arise, there is likely to be quite 

 a crop of plums next season. 



There has been added to this orchard a number of new varieties, among them, 

 four of the newly introduced Japanese plums. The collection now comprises 188 

 trees and 68 varieties. 



The following are those received this year : — 



Lone Star, Transparent, 



Wooten, Quaker, 



Forest Garden, Golden Beauty 



Wayland, Wild Goose, 



Deep Creek, Mariana, 



De Soto, Robinson, 



Pottawattamie, Garfield, 



Yosobe, Hattunkio, 



Shiro Smomo, Clyman. 



Cherries. 



Since my last report three cherry trees have died. All others have made a 

 strong healthy growth. The Elton, Yellow Spanish, Montmorency and Willamette 

 produced a few cherries each. The robins did not allow them to remain long enough 

 on the trees to ripen. An effort will be made to protect the fruit next year. Ten 

 trees, 2 each of 5 varieties, have been added to the collection of cherry trees this 

 year. There are now 46 varieties and 144 trees. 



The new varieties are : Luelling, Belle de Choisy, Centennial, Ohio Beauty and 

 Belle Magnifique. 



FRUIT TREES PLANTED ON THE BENCH. 



Figs, peaches, apricots, nectarines, grapes and cherries planted on the bench 

 land, have made very satisfactory progress. 



The Japanese orange was frozen to the snow line in February, but it threw out 

 shoots from the ground, and has made a fair growth during the past season. 



The peach trees were in bloom, from five to seven days earlier on the bench 

 land than the same varieties planted in the valley, and were not affected by the cold 

 wave in the beginning of May, which blighted the fi-uit prospects of peach trees in 

 the valley. 



Notes have been kept of the curl leaf, in 1890 and 1891, on the peaches, and 

 nectarines, both in the valley, and on the bench. It has not been very severe in 

 either place. 



Below is a list of the varieties that have been free from curled leaf in both years, 

 on the bench and in the valley. Many sorts were only slightly affected — from 5 

 to 10 per cent of the leaves. Several varieties were only slightly affected in one place, 



