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out there last year, which is ia very good condition. Some small 

 fruits, plums and apples have also been put out there. At the 

 Crookston farm a good beginning has been made in horticultural 

 work, including vegetable gardening and about five acres of trees 

 set out. 



At the Grand Rapids farm the conditions are very different from 

 those existing in the other places named, for that station is located 

 on a tiinber farin, including about 200 acres of natural forest land, 

 which is to be used for experiments in forestry. We have at that 

 point made trial plantings of the fruits most promising for that 

 section. 



Our school work has been very successful. The total registration 

 for the boy's school, which closed with the graduating exercises of 

 March 29, was 320. The summer school for girls opened April 28 for 

 a six weeks course and was attended by about seventy students. A 

 new feature of this school which was introduced last 3'^ear is green- 

 house laboratory work. In this part of the course the students 

 learn the simple processes in common use in greenhouses, such as 

 mixing potting soil, potting, seed sowing, pricking out, making and 

 caring for cuttings, etc. Figure No. 1 shows one section of this 

 class in front of the potting shed at the close of a working session- 

 In figure 2, a few members of the class are shown putting cuttings 

 into the propagating bench. 



A special feature of the life at the experiment station this spring 

 has been the manj^ visitors here, which plainly shows the station 

 work is of more interest than ever to the farmers of the state, who 

 seem to appreciate the work of all divisions. Three excursions on 

 the Watertown branch of the Minneapolis and St. Louis brought us 

 nearly 500 visitors; five delegations off the Great Northern road 

 brought us about 400 visitors, and we have also had a delegation 

 from Carlton county of about seventy — in all a total of about 1,000 

 persons, besides many who have come separately. One delegation 

 of eighty-five persons came over the Great Northern railroad from 

 Watertown, South Dakota. The persons comprising these delega- 

 tions were generally representative men from their respective neigh- 

 borhoods. 



MONTEVIDEO EXPERIMENT STATION. 



LYCUKGUS R. MOVER, SUPT. 



The full annual report of this station, published in the May num- 

 ber of the Horticulturist, needs but a brief supplement at this 

 time. The droughtj^ conditions then noted have entirely passed 

 away, and now all kinds of trees and shrubs are rejoicing in abund- 

 ant moisture. 



The oldest experimental trees at this station are Russian willows 

 and poplars. The certinensis poplar and the pj^ramid poplar are 

 badly infested bj"^ borers and cannot long survive. Bolle's poplar 

 is still unaffected and is a fine silver leaved tree. 



All the lilacs continue to do well. The white varieties of syringa 

 vulgaris were much admired this spring. 



