III. HORTICULTURE. 



I present a report of the progress of work in the Department of 

 Horticulture, covering educational and investigational efforts for 

 the year just closed: 



I. GENERAL REMARKS. 



The year's work in the Department of Horticulture may be re- 

 garded as expressing a satisfactory amount of growth along inves- 

 tigational and educational lines under existing conditions. An im- 

 portant addition to the teaching staff of the Department has been 

 made by the appointment of J\Ir. L. B. Judson as Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Horticulture. Professor Judson takes charge of two im- 

 portant courses, practical and sub-tropical pomology, in addition to 

 several others of minor importance. There has long been a demand 

 for instruction in the culture of citrus and southern fruits by students 

 in the graduate school and by students from the South American 

 countries and our own southern states. The opportunities for in- 

 vestigation are considerably limited by reason of inadequate field 

 and laboratory equipment, and also by reason of the increasing de- 

 mands upon the time of the staff' of the Department by students in 

 class-room and practicum. The number of students electing horti- 

 culture this year is larger than ever before in both graduate and 

 undergraduate classes. It has been necessary to divide the begin- 

 ning class into two sections in order to carry on the work in a satis- 

 factory manner. 



n. EXPERIMENTS. 



Under Federal Funds: The following studies have been con- 

 ducted under federal appropriation during the present year : 



1. An exhaustive examination of the characteristics of garden 

 beans with special reference to their uses and adaptations, together 

 with a system of classification based upon the characters of seed. In 

 preparation for publication. 



2. Investigations on the influence of acetylene light on crops 

 grown under glass. These studies have covered a period of two 

 University years, and are being continued the present year. 



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