Horticultural Division. 



I submit herewith the report of the horticultural division of 

 the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station for the 

 year 1894. 



The year has marked a departure in the work of the horticul- 

 tural division, in consequence of the passage of the Nixon or 

 Experiment Station Extension bill. This bill originated with the 

 fruit growers of western New York, who felt that there should 

 be some means for closer communication between the people and 

 the Experiment Station. Three things seemed to be desired 

 by the movers of this bill — the conducting of experiments 

 on the premises of farmers by the Experiment Station, the 

 privilege of asking persons connected with the Station to inspect 

 their plantations in case new difficulties should arise, and the 

 receiving of instruction by means of special lectures or itinerary 

 schools. This work was put in my hands, and the report of its 

 progress to date has been submitted to the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture. The horticulturists of western New York have 

 seconded my efforts with much enthusiasm, and I hope that the 

 results of the enterprise may be of value. The regular work of 

 my division has proceeded as usual, and several investigations 

 still remain unpublished for lack of funds. The critical system- 

 atic study of garden plants, to which the division has devoted 

 much of its energies in the past, is constatitly receiving new 

 impetus as the specimens and books accumulate. At the close of 

 the year the garden herbariums contained 7,271 specimens. 



The bulletins published from my division during the year num- 

 ber 14. 



L. H. BAILEY, 



Horticultwrist. 



