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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



FOREST TREE PLANTING. 



This portion of the Experimental Farm work has given very satisfactory results 

 during the past season. 



The trees set out in nursery rows and shelter belts have generally made a rapid 

 growth. The avenues have also done remarkably well. The accompanying cut 

 (Fig. 4) is from a photograph showing a part of one of these avenues leading from 

 the main road to the superintendent's house. Considerable additions have been made 

 to the collection of forest trees and shrubs this year. 



Fig. 4.— part OF AVENUE OF MANITOBA MAPLE, EXPERIMENTAL FARM, 



BRANDON, MAN. 



In June last I made a visit to Eat Portage, and procured from there a collection of 

 native trees of the following varieties : White Pine (P/nws Strobus), Jack Pine (^Pinus 

 Banksiana) and EedPine {Finns resinosa) White Spruce (Picea alba), Black Spruce 

 (Picea nigra), Balsam Spruce (Abies balsamea), also plants of native Sumach 

 and Labrador Tea {Ledum latifolium). Although these were moved rather late in 

 the season many of them have rooted, and will make interesting additions to the 

 collection; thei-e are still other varieties of trees and shrubs found in that district 

 that have not been tested here and which it would be desirable to obtain as soon as 

 practicable. 



A number of Riga Pine, Norway Spruce and Native Oak (Quercus macro- 

 carpa), the latter from seed gathered here, and a very full collection of Lilacs, 

 Spireas with other shrubs were received from the east last spring ; these have nearly 

 all rooted and will be reported on later. 



FOREST TREES AND SHRUBS PLANTED IN SPRING OF 1892. 



In the fall of 1891 a number of forest trees and shrubs were received from the 

 Central Experimental Farm, these were heeled in over winter and planted the 



