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whose results are of value, not only to themselves, but to those 

 in their neighborhood. 



Upon receipt of the reports at the end of each season, they 

 are summarized and a general report of the work is presented 

 each year at the Annual Meeting of the Experimental Union held 

 at the College usually during the first week in December. 



This work is of great educational value to those engaged in 

 it, and the greatest value naturally accrues to the individual ex- 

 perimenters who receive plants and carefully conduct the experi- 

 ments. It is valuable also because it affords a means of dis- 

 tributing the leading varieties throughout the Province, and 

 many are thus given a start in fruit-growing who had never 

 before given it any attention. The educational value, too, of the 

 cultural directions furnished with plants is helpful, enabling 

 growers to adopt the best methods in their fruit-growing. This 

 work, although conducted on a scale calculated more to help the 

 grower in his supply of fruit for home use, is also having a 

 marked effect on the commercial fruit-growing of the Province. 



Similar work was begun this year with vegetables, and 

 seeds of a few of the leading varieties of beets, carrots, let- 

 tuce, and tomatoes were distributed to about fifteen hundred ex- 

 perimenters. Reports upon this work are now coming in, and 

 one of the most striking features in connection with it has been 

 the eagerness with which it has been taken up by the various 

 schools of the Province, where school gardens have been insti- 

 tuted, and probably in no other place could it have a greater 

 educational value. 



