AGRIOULTUEAL COLLEGE BULLETL^S. 



[The law providing for the publication of these bulletins (Act No. 81, 1885), is 

 printed on page 47 of this Report. Bulletins Nos. 1 to 6 were printed in the Report of 

 1884. Any one wishing to have these bulletins regularly mailed to them as issued 

 will please send their name and address to the Secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, Agricultural College, Mich.] 



NO. 7.— DEPAETMENT OF HOETICULTUEE AND LANDSCAPE 



GAEDENING. 



I. Notes ok Fkuits. 



II. Notes oisr Vegetables. 



III. Notes on Some Hardy and Desirable Ornamental Trees and 

 Shrubs. 



As my connection with the college dates from last January only, it will 

 be impossible for me to prepare a bulletin which shall be the result of 

 especial investigation or experiment. Aside from the notes upon hardy 

 ornamental trees and shrubs, therefore, I shall attempt little more than an 

 enumeration of the experiments which we have inaugurated for the testing 

 of new varieties of fruits and vegetables, with catalogues of the varieties 

 we are growing at present. It will be to the interest of many to know what 

 fruits are growing upon the college premises. It is intended to test all 

 promising new varieties as fast as they appear. We solicit new varieties from 

 parties who originate them, desiring, especially, to secure them before they 

 are put upon the market, A fruit garden of four acres is being fitted for 

 the growth of small fruits. Unfortunately, our climate is a rigorous one, 

 and none of the tenderer fruits can be grown. 



It is hoped to soon inaugurate other experiments of more general value, 

 of wider application than the mere testing of varieties, but not to such an 

 extent as to interfere with those in hand. In order to make an exact record 

 of the whole visible biograj^hy of all our cultivated plants from sowing to 

 maturity, arrangements have been made for competent observers — one for 

 the fruit garden and orchards, one for the vineyards, and one for the veget- 

 able garden — to make daily notes throughout the season upon conditions of 

 plants and important phenomena of growth and structure. This arrange- 

 ment will enable us to present in systematic tabulated form the seasons of 

 germination and maturity, the period of the plant's greatest and least vigor, 

 the exact external influences of culture and weather, the detailed charac- 



