•H STATE liOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



whole where the banks are low are still covered by a nice variety of 

 wild native plants so jjleasing to most people. 



To secure dirt to raise the upper portion of the garden, the high 

 bank on the south side occupied by honeysuckles, was lowered to high- 

 water mark. To get into the garden with a loaded wagon this fall 

 an unsightly roadway is left beside the brook. Later in the season, I 

 hope to give this portion a good lift, possibly all that may need rais- 

 ing. 



THE HERBARIUM. 



Here are named the additions made during the current year : 



Seed Plants, Ferns and their allies. 



Home collections 70 



S. M. Tracy, Biloxi, Miss, Specimens Cassava 'S 



O. F. Baker, Pl^conomic plants from Cuba 34 



By exchange from Europe 237 



W. W. Eggleston 66 



M. L. Fernald, Plants from (Quebec 122 



FUNGI. 



E. Bartholomew, Fungi Columbiana, Centuria XV and XVI 200 



ALGAE. 



F. S. Collins, Fascicles Fascicle XXIX 50 



Total additions for the year , 782 



GENERAL SUM5IARY OF PLANTS IN THE IIERBAUIUiM. 



Seed Plants, Ferns and their allies 81,227 



Mosses and Liverworts 2,010 



Lichens 1,186 



Fungi 17,353 



Algae 2,270 



Grand total in Herbarium 104,016 



THE ARBORETUM. 



This piece of land of about an acre and a quarter is just south- 

 east of the delta where two roads meet, one from Lansing, one from 

 North Lansing. Planting of seeds was begun in the summer of 1875, 

 thirty-three years ago, and twice after enlarged to the east and to the 

 south. In 1882, there were growing about 152 species of woody plants 

 that Avere planted in rows four feet apart. In some cases the s|»eci('s 

 were parts of several rows blocked in together. Tlie soil is nothing 

 extra, mostly sand or sandy loam. About twelve years ago, the soulli- 

 west corner was fenced oft" with other land and used for a deer park. 

 It is needless to say the deer soon killed all shrubbery and the bucks 

 killed many of the young trees by rubbing with their horns. 



For eight or ten years students and others have kept a path open 



