64 DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



Miscellaneous — Continued: 



Michigan Journal Education, after vol. 7. 



" Teacher, after vol. 11. 

 Nation, vol. 1. 



Nineteenth Century, before 1879. 

 North American Eeview, before 1820. 

 Official Records, War of Eebellion, vols. 3, 4, 5. 

 Pacific R. R. Survey, any after 10. 

 Price's Calculus, vol. 2. 

 School Readers, old Sanders, National, etc. 

 Signal Service U. S., 1874-5, annual reports. 

 Stephen's Pictorial History, War for Union, vol. 2. 

 Vermont Merino Sheep-Breeders' Register, vol. 1. 

 Veterinarian, before 1881. 

 Westminster Review, between vols. 12 and 8B. 

 Young's Annals of Agriculture, vols. 39,44, 45. 



Zoology, any standard illustrated works on, in French, German or English. 



M. J. CARPENTER, 

 Librarian, 

 Agricultural College, June 30, 1887. 



REPORT OF THE PROFESSOR OF HORTICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE 



GARDENING. 



To the President of the College : 



The past year has been a prosperous one for the Horticultural department. 

 The most important effort of this year, as of last year also, has been devoted 

 to student labor. With the increase of the plantations of fruits and vege- 

 tables greater facilities are offered the student in search of a practical train- 

 ing in horticultural operations, and a higher grade of labor is open to all. 

 With this increase of field equipment comes the question as to how much of 

 the manual labor shall be made strictly educational with no remuneration. 



It is evident, however, that such labor can never attain prominence until 

 we are provided with more supervisors. The finer kinds of horticultural 

 operations demand as great manual skill as do those of the shop or labora- 

 tory, while the work is of necessity so much scattered that nearly every 

 separate gang should have an overseer. It is not expected that all labor shall 

 ever be made educational. Such labor must always be limited by the num- 

 ber of overseers to direct it. I am gratified to know that you are in such 

 hearty sympathy with advancement in this direction, and have such a keen, 

 appreciation of the requirements necessary to its attainment. 



Few radical departures have been made from the established customs of 

 the college in reference to student labor. The most important innovation, 

 made by the unanimous consent cf the State Board of Agriculture, was the 

 paying of students by the quart instead of by the hour for picking berries. 

 The students entered into the change with willingness, and it was in every 

 way a success. A set of rules was printed and posted, a draft of which is 

 submitted : 



