HORTICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING. t?5 



All berries are to be picked by the quart, the rate being two cents. Each, 

 picker shall take to the patch one and only one box-holder — the holder carry- 

 ing four boxes — and shall promptly return the same to the packing house 

 when the four boxes are filled. At the close of the day's work each student 

 shall receive a ticket or tickets representing the number of quarts picked. 

 As soon as a picker secures four one-quart tickets he is requested to exchange 

 them for a four-quart ticket, and to exchange five four-quart tickets for one 

 twenty-quart ticket. These tickets are to be presented at the secretary's 

 ■office at the end of the term. 



Pickers must observe the following rules : 



1. All the ripe berries, and no green ones are to be picked. 



2. Berries must not be crushed or mussed, and care should be exercised 

 aiot to drop any on the ground, 



3. Leaves or litter of any kind must not be allowed in the boxes. 



4. Boxes must be rounding full when brought to the packing house. 



5. Quantities less than a quart will not be counted in settlement. 



6. Pickers must take one side of a row and pick it clean. No skipping 

 from row to row or from plant to plant is allowed. 



7. While picking strawberries, students must exercise care not to step on 

 the plants. They must not stand on their knees. 



8. So far as passible, the berries must be placed in the shade as soon as a 

 box is filled. 



In class-room instruction very little change or improvement in methods 

 has been attempted, from the fact that there are no facilities at command for 

 such improvement. When the projected horticultural building is completed it 

 is expected that many new and more satisfactory methods of teaching can be 

 inaugurated. Already there has been some attempt at laboratory work, and 

 each student in the class in horticulture has been obliged to take practice in 

 budding, making of cuttings of various sorts, sowing seeds under glass, prick- 

 ing out, transplanting, repotting, stratification of seeds, etc. 



Crops in the garden and orchards have been good as a whole, notwith- 

 standing the extreme drouth which prevailed during most of the growing 

 season. The crops of strawberries, pears and apples, especially, have been 

 ^ood. 



Although there is no time or means provided for the conducting of experi- 

 ments, yet some investigations have been carried on as time would permit. 

 The mere growing of so many kinds of plants for illustration consumes much 

 time and thought, and great vigilance has to be exercised in keeping kinds 

 distinct. Duplicates of many plants are sent to fruit growers about the 

 State, the growers being selected with reference to their ability and facilities 

 for carrying out accurate tests of varieties, I submit herewith notes upon a 

 portion of the experiment work of the year, with supplementary notes, in 

 some cases, from the investigations of others. In this work, as in all else 

 connected with the department, I am under obligations to the painstaking 

 work of my foreman, Mr. C. S. Crandall. 



WORK OF EXPERIMENT AND OBSERVATION". 



I. Notes on Tomatoes. 

 II. Notes on Peppers. 

 III. Notes on Onions. 



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