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intrusted. I am iiincli pleased with tiiis plan and have no desire to return to 

 the old way. One senior had charge of the grapes, one the other small fruits, 

 one the nursery and forestry, one the drives and paths, one the apple orchard, 

 one the experimental grasses, another the repairs about the buildings. In these 

 separate departments each senior either did all the work from time to time, or 

 more often ho acted as foreman of other students who helped liim in the work. 



The juniors have all had quite a variety of work. Each has had a chance to 

 work a few weeks in the greenhouse and flower borders. All of them have had 

 an opportunity, with varied success, to oversee a number of other students in 

 different kinds of work. Most of them like to be thus placed in responsible 

 positions, and usually do their best to perform their work well and with con- 

 siderable dispatch. 



We have had one-third of the freshmen for each of the three terms, instead 

 of changing oftener, as in former years. The new j^lan has proved perfectly 

 satisfactory to all concerned. 



PROaUAMMES FOR WORK. 



I insert from the work-book what all the students in the horticultural depart- 

 ment were doing on three days at different times in the year : 



On April 17th, seven students were straightening up the terraces for grape- 

 vines and sodding the steep portions : one v. as transplanting in the nursery ; 

 one was pruning in the ap])le orchard ; one showed visitors about ; two were 

 fdling uneven places on the lawn ; three worked in the greenhouse ; one worked 

 cleaning up the drives : one cared for the tools ; one tlie hotbeds ; one removed 

 niirsery stock from the new vegetable garden ; one top-grafted in the apple 

 orchard ; five with team and teamster drew dirt to fill the hole on the flats from 

 which muck had been taken ; three dug out and cut up dead trees from the 

 grounds; two spread manure on the vegetable garden. 



On May IJOth, tliree worked in the vineyard; one sju'cad manure; one went 

 to help about the apiary; one trimmed small fruits; one hoed experimental 

 grasses ; one worked on drives ; one showed visitors about ; three dug out old 

 dead trees in tlie apple orcliard ; one delivered vegetables to the boarding hall 

 and the professors' houses ; one picked up litter about the buildings ; one dug out 

 old trees on the lawn; two raked up dead leaves; one set out late tomatoes, 

 cue had charge of the tools and repairs; two worked in the greeidiouse. 



On x\ugust31st, tv,-o helped Prof essor Cook look after the apiary; one worked 

 on rustic seats for the lawn ; one tended to the small fruits ; one collected 

 grasses for the centennial ; four raked and trimmed the drives ; one changed 

 the bands for the last time this year on tlie trunks of the apple trees ; two 

 mowed lawn ; two worked in the greenhouse ; one cleaned up the lawn ; one 

 hoed over a piece of quack grass ; four worked on a bog garden and pond for 

 some wild plants ; one delivered vegetables ; one painted rustic work ; one paved 

 a gutter ; one repaired in the college hall ; four sawed and split up old trees 

 dug from lawn ; one trimmed trees in the grove. 



Two of the Juniors have been keeping a calendar of operations in tbe horti- 

 cultural department beginning with the opening of the college year. For vari- 

 ous reasons it is quite incomplete. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



This is in the course for the last six weeks of the year. No record of the class 

 appears at this time, because the report only covers nine months of the year. 

 The time for making our report is three months earlier tlmn usual. 



