REPORT OF THE HORTICULTURIST. 



To the Director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



Sir :— 



In submitting a report of the work of this Division for the year 

 ending June 30, 1898, I beg to say, the work which was begun last 

 year in spraying for the San Jose scale has been continued under the 

 personal supervision of Mr. H. P. Gould, who has extended his work 

 by including in his experiments a badly infested nursery. A consider- 

 able number of prepared insecticides and fungicides are being tested 

 on orchards and various garden crops. Several orchards are also being 

 sprayed by Mr. Gould, continuing his work of last year in this line. 

 The third year study of the dahha and chrysanthemum is being carried 

 on by Mr. W. Miller with a special view to the training and manuring 

 for the best results. A very comprehensive study of the garden pea 

 has been taken up by Mr. G. N. Lauman, who has also under his 

 charge perhaps the largest collection of pelargoniums ever brought 

 together in America. This collection comprises upwards of one 

 thousand varieties and many species, and has been collected in order 

 to study the evolution of this genus. The experiments with fertilizers 

 on strawberries in Oswego county, undertaken last year, have been 

 continued, and in addition several beds have been set apart for spraying 

 for the mildew and leaf blight of the strawberry. The work in Orange 

 county on the culture of celery continues this year. On the Station 

 grounds additions have been made to the varieties of fruits, a large 

 number of scions of Japanese plums having been set. In small fruits 

 there are recent introductions in strawberries and raspberries, most of 

 them fruiting for the first time in this vicinity. About four hundred 

 seedling strawberry plants are fruiting this year, these seedhngs being 

 the results of crosses made under glass in the winter of 1896-7 with a 

 view to the fixing of character by in-breeding. In the forcing houses, 

 the work of the year has been the growing of chrysanthemums and 

 pelargoniums, the forcing of cucumbers, tomatoes and strawberries, the 

 last with very marked results which will soon be published in bulletin 



