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first three terms' w(3rk were required, the remaining courses were elec- 

 tive. Young women are required to take the course in Plant Propaga- 

 tion and a course, not mentioned above, in Floriculture and Landscape 

 Gardening in the Fall term of the Junior year, in which there were 16 



students. 



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LABORATORY WORK. 



The laboratory' courses, with the number of students in them during 

 the year, are given below. Laboratory work takes the place of the old 

 student labor, for which students were paid 1(J cents per hour. In the 

 Spring term of the Sophomore year the work consists of practice- in 

 grafting, budding, pruning, making cuttings, sowing and testing seeds, 

 and in transplanting plants; number of students, 36. During the Fall 

 • term of the Junior year, a comparative study is made of the representa- 

 tive varieties of all the different orchard crojts; number of students, 45. 

 In the Winter term of the Junior year the work consists of practice in 

 forcing vegetables and flowers in the greenhouses. During the Spring 

 term of the Junior year practice is given in spraying and in making, 

 testing, and analyzing spraying mixtures; 14 students in each of the last 

 two courses. Students who desired j)aid labor found an opportunity for 

 it on Staturdays, during vacations, and after hours on school days. 



THE LABORATORY. 



The laboratory — the first distinctively horticultural laboratory in the 

 country — completed in 1881), was in a poor state of repair and unsuited to 

 the needs of the department at the beginning of the year. Steps toward 

 complete renovation were taken and began by the remodeling and re- 

 furnishing of the main floor. The carpenter shop on this floor was re- 

 moved to another building, and the room occupied by it was turned into 

 a storage room for students' supplies. The old tool-room, 36 by 32 feet, 

 occupying the choicest part of the building, in which the postottice has 

 been quartered for the past few years has been rebuilt and furnished 

 with desks, drawers and lockers. The drawers have been equipped with 

 saws, knives, shears, labels, markers, firmers, germinators, etc., whereby 

 each student in the laboratory has an individual outfit. There yet re- 

 main the basement and the upi)er story to be refitted. In the basement 

 it is recommended that the large room, now used for vegetables be 

 turned into a laboratory room tor the study of s^jraying mixtures and 

 spraying implements, and that the smaller rooms for most part, be con- 

 tributory to the main room. In the second story the class-room must be 

 refurnished and three small rooms now used for storage purposes could 

 well be refitted into a room for individual student work, a seed room and 

 an herbarium room. 



THE ORCHARD. 



Few changes have been made during the past year in the orchards. 

 The trees in the small peach and plum orchard west of the hospital were 

 rapidly dying out and all were removed, and the land turned into 

 campus. The orchards are in fair condition so far as the growth of trees 

 is concerned. None are a success as to productiveness, as our land is not 

 well adapted to orcharding, though all have yielded good results for ex- 

 perimentation and for student work. The following are the numbers 



