4 GEORGE V. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 A. 1914 



REPORT 



OF THE 



DIVISION OF BOTANY. 



J. H. Grisdale, Esq., B.Agr., 



Director. Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit herewith the report of the Division of Botany 

 for the year ending March 31, 1913, being the fourth annual report of this Division. 



The present report is an account of that part of the work carried on by the various 

 members of the staff of the Division, which is considered to be of more general interest. 

 It is a bulletin of miscellaneous botanical information and appears in a somewhat 

 changed form, inasmuch as it is partially prepared by the several members of the 

 staff under their own names instead of, as heretofore, by the Dominion Botanist. 



While all work in the Division is carried on under the direction or with the 

 approval of the Dominion Botanist, the varied character of that work renders it 

 necessary that individual members of the staff devote themselves largely to different 

 lines of work or the solution of special problems. It is hoped that by reserving the 

 credit for original work done by them, and thus stimulating them to acquire a scientific 

 reputation of their own, the present arrangement will encourage such work and thus 

 contribute to the raising of the standard of the report from both the scientific and 

 the practical standpoints. 



The work of the Division has extended considerably and progressed satisfactorily 

 during the past year and I am pleased in this place to acknowledge the ever-ready 

 assistance rendered by the members of my staff. 



I have the honour to be, sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



H. T. GUSSOW, 



Dominion Botanist. 



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