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manner only commensurate with our funds. We hope, therefore, that 

 you will see fit to increase our appropriation for the maintaining of 

 the college campus in a manner according with its growth, and that 

 always in the future a special appropriation be issued for grading and 

 planting around these new buildings. 



I wish to call your attention, also, to the college pond, just west of 

 the horticultural building. This pond being without any regular source 

 of supply and having no outlet excejit a small 4 inch pipe placed at 

 a point so high that the water seldom reaches it, becomes in summer, 

 nothing but a black, unhealthy pool of dirty water covered with green 

 algae, which forms under such conditions, making the pond not only 

 a blotch on the landscape of the college campus, but also a breeding 

 place for mosquitoes and many unhealthful germs. The prominence 

 of its location, and the conditions referred to, make it a matter of im- 

 mediate concern. 



ORGAN IZATIOX. 



The students of the dejjartment have felt keenly the resignation of 

 Prof. S. W. Fletcher, which took place in the middle of the college 

 year, his excellent work here having qualified him for the position of 

 Director of the Experiment Station of Virginia. Being temporarily 

 in charge of the department since that time, I wish to express my 

 thanks and recognition for the earnest cooperative spirit in Avhich both 

 the students and instructors have united in making the work of the 

 department most aggressive and instructive to the students and a pleas- 

 ure to those in charge. 



During the spring term we found it necessary to engage the services 

 of Mr. Jesse Boyle, a senior of the class of 1908, as instructor to women 

 students in amateur gardening. His services were most efficient and 

 very satisfactory. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. P. HALLIGAN, 

 Assistant Professor in Horticulture 

 and Landscape Gardening. 

 East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1908. 



