REPORT 



OF THE 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



S. A. BEACH, M. S., Horticulturist. 

 WENDELL PADDOCK, B. S., First Assistant. 

 C. P. CLOSE, B. S., Assistant. 



Table of Contents. 



(I) Treatment of leaf spot in plum and cherry orchards in 

 1896. 

 (ll) Spray pumps and spraying. 



(III) Anthracnose of the black raspberry. 



(IV) Forcing tomatoes; comparison of methods of training and 



benching. 

 (V) Note on a tomato disease. 

 (VI) Strawberries in 1897. 



(VII) Variety tests with raspberries, blackberries and dew- 

 berries. 

 (VIII) Kesults with oat smut in 1897. 

 (IX) Spraying in 1897 to prevent gooseberry mildew. 

 (X) Wood ashes and apple scab. 



