REPORT OF THE BOTANIST AND ARBORICUIvTURIST. 



To the Director of the Cornell U?iiversity Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station : 



Sir : . " 



The work of this divdsion for the present year, so far as the 

 division has any special relation to the Experiment Station, 

 has been devoted wholly to the investigation of the diseases of 

 plants. This work has been carried on by Assistant Professor 

 Dudley, and the results have in part been embodied in one of the 

 bulletins of the Station devoted to the diseases of the strawberry 

 plant. 



In the organization of the department with reference to Station 

 work, it was thought that, in addition to the special subject above 

 mentioned, some facts of a more general nature and of minor im- 

 portance might occasionally be brought out in the ordinary work- 

 ing of the department as a department of instruction in the Uni- 

 versity, which might possess some interest in their bearing upon 

 agricultural pursuits. A few notes of this kind have been pre- 

 pared for one of the Station bulletins ; but it should be mentioned 

 that the Station has been to no expense whatever in connection 

 with the experiments on which these notes are based. 



The appropriation made to this department from the funds be- 

 longing to the Station for the current year has been wholly ex- 

 pended in paying for the work of investigating plant diseases, or 

 in perfecting facilities for prosecuting such investigations. In 

 this connection it should be borne in mind that this special sub- 

 ject, more than most, calls for a large amount of careful and pains- 

 taking work, which in its very nature is not productive of mate- 

 rial suitable for publication in Station bulletins. 



A. N. PRENTISS, 

 Botanist and Arboriculturist. 



