CENTRAL TEIAL STATION 12/ 



Corneli Seed Co., St. Louis, Mo., New Century cucumber 

 seed. 



H. F. Burt, Taunton, Mass., collection of da*hlias. 



Northeast Experiment Station, Grand Rapids, Minn., native 

 black currants, plants and seed. 



Miss Emma V. White, Minneapolis, seed of native white and 

 native purple lilac from Australia. 



Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Minn., artemesia. 



O. A. E. Baldwin, Bridgeman, Michigan, Cumberland rasp- 

 berry. 



T. C. Pointon, Brainerd, Minn., Burbank and Up-to-Date po- 

 tatoes. 



Thomas Redpath, Long Lake, Minn., scions of Florence crab. 



A. C. Clemont, Storm Lake, Iowa, scions of Swinsovka apple. 



G. F. Grannis, Vernon Center, Minn., Minnesota raspberry. 



Emil Sahler, Waseca, Minn., cuttings of Norway poplar. 



C. F. Harrison, York, Neb., seed of Finns aristata, Picea 

 pungens, Pinyon pine and Pinus fllexiles, from Colorado. 



The crops of small fruit have been exceedingly good this year. 

 Apples, however, were rather a short crop and plums almost a 

 total failure. 



Considerable attention has been paid to the raising of seed- 

 lings of various hardy plants, and this includes 4,000 sand cherry 

 seedlings, 200 plum, 9,000 buckthorn, 15,000 Pyrus baccata, 6,000 

 hybrid crab seedlings, 2,500 Russian olive, 2,500 upright cran- 

 berry, 2,000 hackberry, 150 euonymus from Russian seed, 140 

 Russian hop tree, 225 May-day tree, 1,000 Norway maple, 5,000 

 seedling grapes-raised from seed of Beta and from selected na- 

 tive plants. 



The last few years have seen a great improvement in the 

 campus. During the past year the sink hole south of the dairy 

 building has been partly filled up and graded and planted with 

 shrubbery so that it makes an ornamental place out of what 

 was formerly an unsightly hole. The old veterinary building, 

 which was extremely unsightly, has been removed, and a drive- 

 way extended south to the new veterinary building. The drives 

 about the grounds have been somewhat improved, and the growth 

 of shrubs and herbaceous plants and trees has been good, and 

 perhaps never before in the history of the grounds have they 

 looked as well as during the past year, due undoubtedly in a 

 large part to the fact that we had such an abundant supply of 

 water throughout the growing season. This has prompted me to 

 make a special point of illustrating this report with views from 

 our campus — taken during the past year. 



