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growth, but does not fruit well, except one variety, known as Pearson's Early Red. 

 This variety fruits freely and regularly and is one of the earliest to ripen. The nut 

 is small, with a thin shell and a plump kernel of very fine flavour and, under more 

 favouring conditions, would prove profitable, as there is a good demand and good prices 

 for filberts. Here, however, the large areas of land clothed with timber make a good 

 breeding ground for blue jays, and these come by dozens and strip the bushes of the 

 crop before it is ripe. 



SheUbark Hickory. — The hickory trees are making a fine annual growth and fruit 

 freely, but, as our trees are seedlings, unfortunately, the fruit is too small to be of 

 value. The hickory seedlings vary so much that it is too much of a lottery to plant 

 any but grafted trees of the best varieties. The soil and climate appear to suit the 

 hickory, and it is more than probable that a plantation of selected varieties would, in 

 I ime, prove profitable. 



Pecan. — This variety of the hickory does not make a strong growth and is evi- 

 dently unsuited to this climate. 



Butternut.— The trees grow, vigorously and make fine shade trees, but do not fruit 

 freely and are not of value as nut-bearing trees in this part of the province. As the 

 tree is very hardy, it may be of value in parts of British Columbia where tenderer 

 trees would not thrive. 



Black Walnut. — This variety of walnut makes a strong, healthy growth and 

 develops into a handsome tree. If planted on hillsides, where cultivation is impossible, 

 it will grow into valuable timber trees. A few planted here in the spring of 1890, have 

 grown to over thirty feet high, are from ten to fourteen inches in diameter at one 

 foot above the surface of the soil, and are producing a small crop of nuts each year. 



Chestnut. — The chestnut trees have, for some years, made a strong growth and 

 have developed into handsome trees, but the last two seasons have been rather severe 

 on them, apparently, as two of them have died and several of the others in the nut 

 orchard are dying. They have not been very productive, the trees blooming so very 

 late that the fruit does not develop before the cool weather in October sets- in, and we 

 seldom have any perfect nuts. 



English Walnut. — The trees of this variety planted in the spring of 1893, have 

 grown well and are now twenty to twenty-five feet high, with a great spread of top 

 and a diameter of ten to twelve inches of trunk at one foot above the surface of the 

 ground. They produce a small crop of nuts each year and, as the trees grow older, 

 may become profitable, as the nuts are large, thin-shelled and of fine flavour. 



Japanese Walnut. — (Variety 'Sieboldi'). This is one of the handsomest shade 

 trees in the collection here. The trees are vigorous growers with very luxuriant foliage 

 and are early bearers and very productive. The trees, two years old when planted in 

 the nut orchard at forty feet apart, have grown so that the branches touch and the 

 crop of nuts grown in 1810 was the thirteenth crop in succession. These nuts have 

 been distributed to planters in many parts of British Columbia and, from reports 

 received, they have done very well in many places. 



FOREST PLANTATION. 



The land for this plantation was cleared and ploughed in 1892. and the trees 

 planted in 1 1 1 l^ spring of 1893, at which time the greater portion of them were two- 

 year old seedlings and consisted mainly of differ en I varieties of oak. elm, ash. maple, 

 ch stnut, walnut, white pine, Austrian pine. Scotch pine, beech and larch, with a few 

 troes of rarer sorts. 



