rsity Farm has been very much
enlarged this year by the building of the Gymnasium, and consequent
parking about it, and the grading of an athletic field. This will call
for considerable planting work next spring.

The season has been exceptionally good for the growth of all ornamental
stock. All came through last winter in good shape. A late frost killed
many of the early flowering plants, and this prevented the forming of
fruit on such plants as barberry and wahoo. About 400 seedling paeonies
flowered again this year. Some of these are promising. An excellent
block of aquilegia was flowered. A trial ground of some hundred or more
annuals was maintained and proved very interesting. It is hoped that
many more annual novelties may be tried out this year. The perennial
garden established last year was added to and furnished something of
interest the whole season. It will be the aim of the Division to have in
this garden all the annuals and perennials of value in this section.
Some new shrubs were added by purchase and through the Bureau of Plant
Industry. The hedges have proved an interesting exhibit again this year,
and it is planned to add a number of new ones to the group next season.
About seventy-five varieties of chrysanthemums were flowered this autumn
and were much enjoyed by our visitors.

_Fruit._--This year has been a very poor fruit year owing to the freeze
on May 18, when the thermometer dropped to 26 degrees Fahrenheit. At
that time a very promising crop of apples was frozen on the trees.
Currants and gooseberries were also frozen on the bushes, and the young
shoots were frozen on the grape vines. Later the grape vines sent out
secondary shoots which bore a small crop of late maturing fruit.
Regardless of the heavy freeze an apple was found here and there
throughout the orchard, although no one variety seemed to be
particularly favored. On one-year-old Compass and Dyehouse cherry trees
a few fruits were borne, and a similar amount of fruit was produced on
one-year-old Sapa and Skuya plums. The old plum seedling orchard, which
is located to the south of the college buildings and is partially
protected by a wooded hill to the north, gave about five per cent of a
crop. The one-year-old raspberries and blackberries bore a small crop,
and the new strawberry bed, containing over 150 varieties, yielded a
good crop. Records were made on the blossoming dates of practically all
the varieties grown at the Station, and