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the botanic garden is situated on the east side of the brook which runs between 

 the green-house and the botanical laboratory. A rustic foot bridge enables 

 people to pass from one high bank to the other. Boulders, large and small, 

 have been freely used about the slopes and the dififerent orders of plants, and 

 for steps or scats on the shady bank or near the water. The garden is divided 

 into 41 wards, each of which contains plants of one or more natural orders. 

 There is a printed guide with a nui]) to the garden, given as part of a former 

 report. These are given to my students to help in their studies of botany. 

 During the past year, three numbers of the College Speculum contained some- 

 what lengthy articles in regard to the botanic garden. From this place I took 

 a dozen or more interesting aquatics to the American Association for the 

 A.dvancement of Science, held in Ann Arbor. The garden requires consider- 

 able attention to keep the plants and labels in their proper places, and to 

 replenish the vacancies wliich are always to be found. No attempt is made to 

 keep everything in the style of a flower garden on a fine lawn, yet it is common 

 to hear the remark from visitors, " This suits me the best of any place at the 

 college." 



Here the florist finds much to admire, the artist picks out the views which 

 suit him best, and no doubt poets and lovers find this a pleasant resort, while 

 the pleasure seeker thinks it worth looking over. The farmer's wife thinks 

 " it is nice," while the husband takes notes with a determination to fix up that 

 rough piece of his back of the house. The young girl thinks " it cute," Avhile 

 the students of entomology and botany think it a little paradise. 



THE AEBORETUM. 



This contains a little less than two acres and is situated between the houses 

 of Dr. Kedzie, the secretary, and the highway at the north. It was begun ten 

 years ago and now presents many things of interest to the botanist, hcrticul- 

 turalist or any one who has an eye to the beauties of nature. It now contains 

 about two hundred species of trees and shrubs, nearly all of which are labeled. 

 Quite a number have fruited, some of them more than once. Of those fruiting, 

 I may mention white ash, basswood, catalpa, sugar maple, ash'leaved maple, 

 red elm, silver maple, mountain maple, chestnut, chin([uapin, white birch, 

 canoe birch, Hercules club, butternut, European larch, choke cherry, service 

 berry, hop tree, alder, European apple about as large as a pea, probably the 

 parent of our Siberian crab, and three or four others an inch in diameter, the 

 parents of our cultivated apples. At this time a detailed account of the 

 arboretum would seem to be oat of place. 



DONATIONS. 



The donations have been as follows : 

 Prof James Satterlee, Lansing, Mich. : 



One knarl from a chestnut tree. 

 The heirs of F. S. Sleejjer, Class of '68, Galesburg, Mich: 



Seventy-five dry herbaceous plants. 

 /. W. Higbee, Class of '74, Colfax, Washington: 



Samples of wheat, oats, and barley. 

 Frof Edgar Grimm, Claf<s of '73, Corualli.s, Oregon: 



Four samples wheat. 

 Fred Schumacher, Akron, Ohio : 



One package corn, oats and barley chop. 



