REPORT OF TEE DIRECTOR 45 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



I beg to tender my thanks for special services rendered and donations sent me 

 during the year, to the Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plains, Mass., for 

 soerls of many sorts of rare trees and shrubs for trial as to their hardiness and value in 

 dilierent parts of the Dominion; to tlie United States Department of Agriculture, 

 for many favours, including samples of cereals, seeds of fodder crops, &c., for test 

 from foreign countries; to the Director of the Royal Gart^ens, Kew, England, and to 

 many other correspondents for seeds of many sorts of trees, shrubs and plants; also 

 to Prof. John Macoun and Mr, J, M. Macoun of the Geological and Natural History 

 Survey of Canada, for seeds of rare Canadian plants. 



To the officers of the Central Experimental and Branch Experimental Farms, my 

 thanks are due for their earnest co-operation in carrying on the diuerent divisions of 

 the work. Special acknowledgments are due to those members of the stafF who 

 have assisted me in those branches of which I have had personal charge; to Mr. John 

 Fixter, the farm foreman, for the careful attention he has given to the special tests 

 made with fertilizers on farm crops; to Mr. George Fixter, for his careful supervision 

 and assistance in the distribution of samples of seed grain; to Mr. James Taggart, for 

 the care and good judgment he has shown as foreman in charge of the lawns and 

 ornamental grounds, and to Mr. Wm. T. Ellis, for the careful work he has done in 

 testing the vitality of seeds, the management of the plants in the green-house, in 

 growing and propagating useful plants for outside decoration, and in the taking of 

 meteorological records. 



I desire also to iear testimony to the faithful services of my secretary Mr. 2ifal- 

 colm C. O'Hanly. The employees also of all the farms have my thanks for the interest 

 they have taken in their work and the care with which they have discharged their 

 respective duties. 



WM. SAUNDERS, 

 Director of Experimental Farms. 



