Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869 [PAGE 63]

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for duplicates of his collection of varieties, be accepted, and the proper order drawn for the amount. We also recommend that there be an additional experimental orchard of twenty acres, to be located on the stock farm, (Busy farm), for the testing of varieties of the peach, pear, plum, cherry, quince, apricot, nectarine—two trees of each variety, to be planted in rows sixteen by sixteen feet, with every tenth row running North and South to be planted with Norway spruce. Pears to be both standard and dwarf; one half of the dwarf pears to be planted eight feet in the row, thus: 8 by 16 feet. The relative value of standard quince stock to be tested with same varieties, both as regards market value and quality. Cherries to be tried on Morello, Mazzard and Mahaleb stocks. The whole to be surrounded with a double row of Norway spruce, set eight feet apart. The site selected to be the highest point, or points, best adapted to the purpose. Also, one acre of vineyard, two plants of a variety, and so planted as to test the relative value of different modes of training and pruning. Also, that lot B of the plat, containing one acre, be devoted to the testing of new varieties of the small fruits. It is probable that at some future time it may be found advisable to extend the plantation of small fruits for market, for the purpose of giving employment to those students who may, in accordance with the law, desire to remain in the University. We also recommend the formation of an arboretum, to be located North of the new street that is located East and West on the forty acre tract, to contain about ten acres, and marked on the plat "W." So far as practicable to make the same ornamental, on the ground plan of a park, for the use of the University, and the citizens of Urbana and Champaign. PLAT A.—SCHEDULE.

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