DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 41 



Winter Term : Plant Propagation, Sub-freshmen, 50 ; Floriculture, 

 Juniors, 7; Literature of Horticulture and Pomology or Landscape 

 Gardening, Seniors, 8. 



In addition to this instruction, we also had a class of 19 special 

 students in fruit growing; who were attending the special fruit grow- 

 ing course. And also 45 students from the general short course. 



Spring Term : Amateur Gardening, Freshmen Agriculture, 93 ; 

 Sophomore Women, 53; Landscape Gardening, Juniors, 8; Experimental 

 Thesis work and Pomology or Landscape Gardening, Seniors, 8. 



It will be noted from the above that the department is giving for the 

 first time an opportunity for Seniors in horticulture to specialize in 

 Landscape Gardening. Although fruit growing is the leading horti- 

 cultural industry of the state, and we believe should be maintained as 

 the dominant subject in the department, the demand by students for 

 landscape gardening and by the public for men trained in this line, 

 makes it of the utmost importance for us to meet this demand by train- 

 ing students in landscape gardening. It has been necessary, therefore, 

 in the past year to purchase a small amount of apparatus for instruction 

 in this subject. For the coming year, that we may handle this course 

 properly, it will be necessary to equip one of the rooms in the depart- 

 ment building especially for the teaching of landscape gardening. 



During the past year, the department has also taken an active interest 

 in several lines of extension work. By lectures and educational ex- 

 hibits in horticulture at State Fairs, County Fairs, and meetings of the 

 State Horticulture Society, the department has done much toward 

 reaching and aiding the practical farmer and fruit grower in the many 

 problems which confront him. We hope to continue and enlarge upon 

 this phase of our educational work as far as our time and facilities will 

 allow, as we believe this method of education to be not only the most 

 direct in disseminating agricultural knowledge, but one of the best 

 ways of gaining and maintaining that cooperative spirit which should 

 exist between the fruit growers of the state and this department. 



GROUNDS. 



During the winter, the middle block of apple trees was thinned as 

 suggested in the last report. In general, it may be said, that it has been 

 our aim to continue the work of the department upon the plans laid 

 out by Prof. Fletcher. It was deemed advisable, however, to defer the 

 planting of a commercial pear orchard and a vineyard, since they would 

 form such permanent plantings, until a successor to Prof. Fletcher had 

 been appointed. Otherwise, the work of the department grounds has 

 been carried on upon the same general lines as given in the last report. 



One of the ever present and perplexing problems of the department con- 

 sists in the maintaining and improvement of the college campus. Each 

 year the rapid growth that is taking place in the college, necessitates an 

 increased area of lawn, walks and roads to be constructed and cared 

 for. Each year finds a new building, necessitating more grading and 

 planting. All this we endeavor to accomplish out of an appropriation 

 entirely inadequate for the purpose. The result is that our lawns 

 being left, year after year, without receiving any fertilizer or manure, 

 owing to the lack of funds to purchase and apply the same, are rapidly 

 becoming depleted. Our new buildings are graded and planted in a 

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