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SEEDLING STRAWBERRIES. 



The last season we fruited over forty of our seedling strawberries but 

 not one do I consider worth retaining. 



CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES. 



These have borne good crops the past season. Some experiments tried 

 in covering gooseberries convince me that the increase of vigor and cer- 

 tainty of crop secured thereby will repay any additional cost necessary in 

 laying them down 



The Industry gooseberry has fruited the past year at the station, the 

 fruit is very large and of good quality, but I have yet to see the plant 

 grow with sufficient vigor to ever make it profitable. It should be pro- 

 tected in winter. 



RASPBERRIES. 



There is nothing new in raspberries that I think an addition to the 

 list. The Cuthbert is holding its own and the Marlboro is growing in 

 favor. Mr. Stubbs, of Long Lake, sold last season $125 worth of them 

 from one quarter of an acre. 



The Golden Queen is a prolific variety much like Cuthbert in form, but 

 as its canes are much stiffer than those of the Caroline, which is also a 

 yellow variety, the latter would be my choice for garden purposes on ac- 

 count of the readiness with which it may be laid down and covered. It 

 is more prolific than the Golden Qeen but not so firm or of so large a size. 



RASPBERRY SEEDLINGS. 



We have about 2,000 seedlings from the Cuthbert and Schaeffer's Colos- 

 sal which ought to fruit next year. As most of these are from the Schaef- 

 fer, which is a hybrid, I regard them with much interest. 



VEGETABLES. 



The experiments in this line will be reported on in a later bulletin. I 

 wish to say, however, that of the eight hundred potato seedlings grown 

 from seed sown at the station two years ago, all but fifty of the most 

 promising have been discarded. 



FORESTRY. 



This is a subject of vast importance and I wish it was within the means 

 of the society to give it more attention. I have put out a plantation of 

 two and a half acres the past year with a view to testing our Russian 

 willows and poplars as forest trees. At the same time most of our native 

 timber trees, both deciduous and evergreen, were planted in the same 

 tract. Besides furnishing valuable data for experiment purposes, it will 

 serve as an important object lesson to visitors and our farm school pupils. 

 I design carrying on some experiments in forestry physics the coming 

 season. 



CONIFER.E FROM SEED. 



This matter will be referred to at more length in a paper now prepared 

 and shortly to be issued in a bulletin form. Our experiments were such 

 as to serve the purpose of an important lesson in the sowing of the seeds 

 of these valuable trees, during the past season which has been very unfa- 

 vorable for this work on account of the warm, moist weather in 

 May and June. It may be of interest to those who are watching that 

 peculiar broad-leaved conifer commonly called Ginko tree {Salisburia 

 adiantifolia) and who know of its very promising behavior in point of 

 hardness. It may be interesting to them to know that we can grow it 

 here readily from the seed, which is not expensive. 



