xliv Department of Floriculture 



POMOLOGY 



W. H. Chandler, Professor of Pomology 



Investigation. — Few of the investigations under way in the Department 

 of Pomology are of such a nature that they can be finished within a few 

 years. The experiments in pruning old and young trees, hardiness studies, 

 fertilizers for strawberries and bush fruits, osmotic relationship and 

 incipient drying of fruit, color of fruits, and factors that influence the 

 setting of fruit, have been continued. Under hardiness studies an effort d 

 is being made to get over the entire State and into other States to learn 

 the effect of the past severe winter on the various fruit varieties and species. 



Extension. — The extension division has participated in the following 

 activities during the past year: 



Lectures — Number 8i 



Attendance 3 , 656 



Demonstrations — Number 88 



Attendance i , 678 



Conferences — Number 346 



Attendance 748 



Conventions 13 



Farm visits 75 



The following extension activities are being continued : a demonstration 

 of the methods whereby an old and neglected orchard may be renewed 

 profitably, at Port Byron; and a demonstration of the value of different 

 combinations of fertilizers for the peach orchard, at Pultne^rville. In 

 addition, the Department is working in cooperation with the Niagara 

 County Farm Bureau in establishing central packing houses. 



FLORICULTURE 



E. A. White, Professor of Floriculture 



In September, 191 7, the Department of Floriculture received the 

 donation of a valuable collection of exotics from the estate of Charles 

 Seymotir Husted, of Broadalbin and Brooklyn, New York. This collection 

 will be of much value in furnishing illustrative material for teaching 

 purposes, especially in courses in conservatory plants. 



The recent ruling of the United States Fuel Administrator that during 

 the coming winter greenhouses shall receive but fifty per cent of the 

 fuel consiimed last year, will make the work of the Department this 

 year more difficult. The members of the Department feel, however, 

 that the hardship will be less keen in this institution than to private 

 individuals engaged in commercial floriculture, and that the Department 



