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4 GEORGE V., A. 1914 



BOTANIC GARDENS*. 



Tlie work in the Botanic Gardens and Arboretum made the usual annual progress. 

 A large number of plant and tree labels were placed out. Seeds of many herbaceous 

 plants, trees and shrubs were collected and exchanged with other Botanic Gardens. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The scientific collections were considerably increased. Mr. Eastham devoted as 

 much time as he could spare to collecting and classifying fungi, and especially Cana- 

 dian Myxomycetes. Miss Fyles is engaged in a study of the types of wild rice, and 

 has also collected material for the gardens and herbarium. Every officer of the 

 Division does his part to increase the various collections by personal efforts, in order 

 to make them as complete and, consequently, as valuable as possible for reference 

 purposes. Thanks are due the many correspondents who have contributed to these 

 collections, but special thanks should be given the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, for their courtesy in contributing some 574 speci- 

 mens of dried (mainly microscopic) fungi to the herbarium. Through such generous 

 contributions, and by systematic exchange, our collections continue to grow in a very 

 satisfactory way. 



TRAVELLING AND ADDRESSES, PUBLICATIONS, ETC. 



The Dominion Botanist visited the Niagara district several times during the 

 season in connection with tbe work of the field laboratory. Addresses were given 

 before the Fruit-Growers' Association in St. Catharines and Grimsby on various 

 topics of local interest. In August, and part of September, a visit was paid to the 

 western provinces, where arrangements had been made to meet fruit-growers in the 

 recently-started fruit plantations of the Kootenay valley. Observations were also 

 made on the spreading or presence of a number of fruit and grain diseases which 

 had been under investigation. Mr. Eastham was in charge of experiments conducted 

 in Prince Edward Island concerning potato scab, the results of which are given in 

 full elsewhere, and he was also away from tbe Central Laboratory inquiring into the 

 source of an outbreak of powdery scab in the province of Alberta ; later in the year he 

 was authorized to attend the Cleveland meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



During the year, members of the staff of the Division were asked to attend and 

 address various meetings, associations and congresses. Among others, papers relating 

 to ' Legislation against plant diseases ' (read before the International Horticultural 

 Congress, London, Eng.), 'International Control of fungus diseases' (read at the 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Cleveland), 

 etc., were presented. A number of official publications have been issued, and minor 

 papers and articles were published in scientific and agricultural journals. 



THE POULTRY DIVISION. 



Year by year, the poultry branch of farm work is becoming more ana more 

 valuable to the farmers of Canada and the indifference formerly displayed to poultry- 

 keeping is gradually disappearing. The possibilities of profit from poultry, properly 

 cared for, have been clearly demonstrated in the Poultry Division on the Central 

 Experimental Farm, and have been fully reported on from year to year. When the 

 products, eggs and chickens, are marketed at the proper seasons, that is, when the 

 general supply is least and prices highest, each hen should show a profit of from one 

 dollar to one dollar and fifty cents per annum. Many fanners who attend carefully to 



