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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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95 From D. B. Wier, Lacon, 111.: Silver Maples . . . . White Ash f ,300 600 7,900 From Storrs & Harrison, Painesville, Ohio: American Chestnut Boatman & Co, Champaign, 111.: Osage Orange . Catalpa—(grown from seed, presented by Hon. W. C. Flagg) Total Arthur Bryant, Jr., Princeton, 111.: 3 bbls. Black Walnuts, (seed). 2 " White " " 6,000 4,000 8,000 117,725 ' v The total number of trees for forest plantation received, and the seedlings of our own growth, will more than balance the number that have died. During the winter there have been grafted about 400 varieties of pears, averaging about five grafts each, and about 1,500 pears of standard varieties, also about 10,000 apples of standard varieties. The latter were secured mainly for practice b j the students. SHELTER BELTS. Keceived from M. L Dunlap & Sons, Champaign, 111., 141 Norway Spruce, for west side of apple orchard. From F . K. Phoenix, Bloomington, 111., 170 white pine, for south side of horticultural grounds. The former have done well, the latter not. Trees were ordered from Albany, N . Y., to set in the vacant tenth rows of the apple orchard, but after considerable delay word was obtained that those of proper size could not be furnished. They were to be Norway Spruce, 2 to 3 feet, and were advertised at $20 per 1,000. STREET TREES. From F . K. Phcenix, Bloomington, 111., 130 white elms. These were set 50 feet apart, 8 feet from hedge, throughout the west side of the Horticultural grounds, and silver maples planted between, the latter to be finally removed. SMALL FRTTITb. The only variety of fruit obtained was the Wilson Strawberry, of which we had a fair crop from about half an acre. The plan is to establish if possible a few of a number of varieties of small fruits for experiment, comparison, etc., and then plant on a larger scale a few stan-
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