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winter and this, and incidentally 

 ing of winter beans. 



it has been used for the grow- 







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 jSSIli^ rines > ^apes 



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The third or lower series of 

 houses is ninety four feet in length 

 and is divided into three unequal 

 parts. E is a conservatory at- 

 tachment which is to be used for 

 various ornamental plants. F is 

 a laboratory-house, and G jis a 

 fruit-house in which it is ex- 

 grow peaches, necta- 

 and other fruits. 

 '£mb These houses are built upon level 

 ground and are even m span. 

 The}' are built entirely from the 

 general university funds, but as 

 Fig. 6. — A Tomato Walk. they belong to the horticultural 

 plant it may be proper to speak of them here. The}* are designed 

 for the purpose of teaching horticulture, while the four houses 

 above them are used entirely for experimental work. House F is 

 what I consider a model laboratory -greenhouse. It is sixteen feet 

 wide with a gable elevation of about nine feet. The tables upon 

 the side are divided by cross walks so as to separate one student 

 from another, and to give him a place to work where he will not 

 interfere with others who may be passing through the house. In 

 this house the students do work in small detachments upon the 

 leading operations of horticulture under glass, more especially 

 upon the more difficult kinds of propagation, upon pollination 

 and the management of various interesting subjects. The house 

 is now being stocked with a variety of ornamental plants for this 

 purpose. Incidentally, much experiment will be performed in 

 this house, but it is experiment which will have the instruction 

 of the student for its first object. House E will form an overflow 

 for house F, but it is designed, nevertheless, for the definite in- 

 struction of students. 



All the houses are connected by two buildings which extend 

 across their ends. Upon the front is a building, twenty-four by 

 thirty feet, which includes a large laboratory room and small 

 office, and a well equipped photograph gallery. Above, it com- 

 prises an attic and a sleeping room. In the basement of this 



