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prise something over twenty acres of very uneven land. Part 

 of it is a very stiff clay, and part is a good quality of gravel 



and garden loam. The 

 plantations upon this 

 area are of considerable 

 jjft importance. They in- 

 k» elude a dwarf pear or- 

 chard, set last spring, of 

 three hundred trees, a 

 small orchard of apri- 

 cots, plums, and pears, a 



small huckleberry plan- 

 Fig. 7.— Garden Barn. ^^^ about fifty va _ 



rieties of apples, and a vineyard of about sixty varieties ; also 

 cherries, nine varieties ; peaches, seven varieties ; nectarines, 

 almonds, mulberries, nuts, and various other tree fruits ; black- 

 berries, ten varieties ; raspberries, fifteen varieties ; currants, 

 nine varieties ; gooseberries, four varities ; strawberries, twenty 

 varieties; plantations of many wild fruits, including juneberries, 

 a small but growing Prunicetum, in which it is designed to grow 

 all the native plums of America ; a Rubicetum, into which the 

 wild brambles are being collected. 



The horticultural division has two offices in Morrill Hall, 

 one of which is devoted to clerical work, and the other of which 

 contains the garden herbarium, Fig. 8. This garden herbarium 

 is one of the most important features of the work of the division. 

 It is growing rapidly and has even now assumed large proportions. 

 Every variety of every species grown in the gardens is pressed and 

 mounted. Besides this, collections are made at leading nurseries in 

 various parts of the country and arrangements are being made by 

 which cultivated plants of foreign countries are to be secured. In 

 short, the scope of the garden herbarium is nothing less than an 

 herbarium of the cultivated species and varieties of the world. 

 This I consider an invaluable auxiliary to any complete and 

 comprehensive study of the variation of cultivated plants. The 

 division also own a great number charts and prints of various 

 kinds. The library contains files of all the leading journals, both 

 domestic and foreign, and a very large selection of the best horti- 

 cultural writings. Most of the periodicals are also laid directly 

 before the eyes of students by keeping them on file in the agri- 

 cultural reading-room. 



