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MIDSUMMER REPORTS. 



HORTICULTURAL DIVISION OF UNIVERSITY FARM.— 

 CENTRAL STATION. 



PROF. S. B. GREEN, SUPT, 



Our nurserj'^ stock and fruit plants never came throug-h a winter 

 in better shape than they did through last winter, and the prospect 

 for a good, normal growth was never more promising than this 

 spring, but owing to the cold, wet weather of the latter part of May 

 and first of June our crops are not nearly as forward as usual at 

 the time this is written, and warm weather is greatly needed. 



Injury from Rabbits. The most injury which we received last 

 winter was from rabbits girdling our smaller trees. This complaint 

 is a verj'^ general one, and I think it must have resulted from the 

 fact that the natural food of the rabbits was covered deeply with 

 snow. In our case, we found that the rabbits in our vicinity had 

 their homes in some large piles of tree trunks and by surrounding 

 these with wire hen house netting, we harvested the whole crop of 

 rabbits, and their nuisance ceased. 



Late Frosts. We escaped serious damage from the June frosts 

 which killed the new growth on the oaks in low spots in this vicin- 

 ity. A few of our strawberry blossoms were killed, but the loss from 

 this cause was very small, owing to the fact that we covered the 

 plants with the mulch from between the rows on the night of May 

 29. The outlook is now for a very good crop of strawberries, but 

 they will be late in ripening. 



Outlook for Small Fruits. The outlook for raspberries, cur- 

 rants, gooseberries, blackberries, Juneberries, buffalo-berries and 

 mulberries is unusually good. 



Outlook for Apples and Plums. Considering that this is the 

 ofif j'ear for apples, we have the promise for an unusually large 

 amount of fruit. Plums have set heavily and look well. Cherries 

 will be a very light crop. 



