Report of the Horticulturist. 



To the Director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment 

 Station: 



Sir. — The past year has been altogether a most prosperous 

 one for the Horticultural Division of the Experiment Station. 

 Its endeavors, however, have been somewhat dismembered, owing 

 to the experiment extension work which has been asked of it 

 l)y the Legislature. The work might be roughly divided, there- 

 fore, into the two categories of home work, or station work 

 proper, and the extension or itinerant work. The later has 

 consumed by far the greater amount of our time and energies 

 during the past year, as, in fact, it did in the two preceding years. 

 In reporting the condition of my Division to yourself early in 

 1894, I took occasion to suggest that one of the means by which 

 the Experiment Station could help the people was through State 

 aid, which should give us facilities for publishing more informa- 

 tion and which should allow us also to hold horticultural meet- 

 ings or schools for the purpose of popularizing and disseminating 

 the horticultural knowledge of which experimenters are now 

 possessed. At that time I had not anticipated that the recom- 

 mendation would find such complete and speedy fulfillment. It 

 was in that very year that we were asked to undertake the ex- 

 tention of our horticultural work, and this endeavor has now 

 been prosecuted consecutively for three years. The full results 

 of this work, so far as they can be indicated at the present time, 



