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this division feels at present is not facilities for doing more work, 

 but means of diffusing more rapidly and more widely the results 

 of its investigations. I believe that it is a legitimate province 

 of the State to encourage a dissemination of information which 

 we obtain through correspondence and experiment. This dis- 

 semination of the results of our work, it seems to me, should 

 proceed along two lines : First, there should be more funds for 

 the printing and mailing of bulletins and reports ; second and 

 chiefly, there should be some organization by means of which 

 the horticultural interests of the State can be co-ordinated and 

 banded together in a common bond or union. The horticultural 

 interests of New York State are very great, but they are divided 

 between three or four great geographical regions which are 

 more or less separated and independent of each other. There is 

 no State Horticultural Society. There should be some central 

 organization which would have authority and power to carry 

 the results of the latest scientific experiment and teaching into 

 these various regions. The prosperity of the commonwealth 

 could be greatly quickened, if, for instance, there could be what 

 might be called "horticultural schools," fashioned somewhat 

 after the plan of the itinerant dairy schools, and held in various 

 parts of the State, and we should then have the means of giving 

 to the people the information which I now feel is very largely 

 withheld from them. The recommendation which I have to 

 make at this time, therefore, is that you may consider the prac- 

 ticability of asking the State for funds by means of which we 

 can increase our own usefulness and add decidedly to the material 

 progress of the State. 



Very respectfully submitted. 



L. H. BAILEY, 



Professor of Horticulture. 



