Report of the Botanist. 



The botanical work of the station, as heretofore, has been 

 wholly devoted to the investigations of the diseases of plants. 

 This has been carried on by Prof. Atkinson, whose report is 

 inclosed. While there are other botanical questions, the consid- 

 eration of which would come well within the scope and purpose 

 of the station, the one referred to above is of such paramount 

 importance at the present time that it seems wise to devote the 

 entire efforts of this division to its study. A considerable num- 

 ber of letters of inquiry relating to general botanical subjects 

 have reached the division, to all of which I have given due con- 

 sideration and have sent appropriate replies. 



A. N. PEENTISS, 



Botanist. 

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