REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 



To Oscar Clute, M. S., Director of the Experiment Station: 



Dear Sir — I herewith submit my second annual report for the year 

 closing June 30, 1889 : 



I need not tell you nor any of our readers that this date is a most unfort- 

 unate one for reporting the progress of any out-door experiments, as it 

 necessitates the placing of two halves of a report of two different growing 

 seasons. 



At the outset it becomes necessary for the reader to familiarize himself 

 with the report for ] 888. Three visits have been made during the year to 

 each of the northern stations. The work is done by hired help and is not 

 always done well nor strictly in accordance with the directions given. 



EXPERIMENTS AT GRAYLING. 



The plats of grasses and other forage plants are on old land rented of 

 Mr. Brink, and the reader may remember are each one rod square. The soil 

 is typical jack-pine plains and has been previously cropped for several years 

 with little or no manure of any kind. As everyone had reason to expect, a 

 large number of the grass plats amounted to nothing. The seeds of some 

 failed to germinate; others germinated, but the plants remained small and 

 soon perished for one or more reasons ; others have established themselves 

 and still retain life ; some have made a small growth ; others have done 

 pretty well. 



In addition to what were sown when my last report was made, are the 

 following, sown September 21. The seeds sown this spring came up better 

 than those sown a year ago : 



Achillea Millefolium L. 



(Yarrow Milfoil.) 

 Agropyrum caninum R. & S. 



(A Wild Grass.) 

 Agropyrum dasystachium Vasey. 



(A Wild Grass.) 

 Agropyrum divergent Nees. 



(A Wild Grass.) 

 Agropyrum glaucum R. & S. 



(A Wild Grass.) 

 Agropyrum tenerum Vasey. 



(A Wild Grass.) 



Agropyrum unilaterale Vasey & 

 Scribner. 



(A Wild Grass.) 

 Agrostis alia L. 



(Red Top.) 

 Agrostis scabra Willd. 



(Hair Grass.) 

 Agrostis stolonifera L. 



(Creeping Red Top.) 

 Alopecurus pratensis L. 



(Meadow Foxtail.) 



