HORTICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 39 



The basement contains a room for winter grafting, one for the washing and 

 preparing of vegetables for market, beside rooms for the storage of fruits, 

 vegetables, cions aud grafts, and fuel. 



GROUNDS. 



The proper care of the grounds requires the work of from ten to fifteen 

 students (for the two or three hours per day that they work) during the 

 school year. The past spring considerable extra work was performed in 

 grading and turfing about the three new buildings, Abbot Hall, Howard 

 Terrace and the Horticultural Laboratory. Walks and drives were laid out 

 about them, and several hundred large evergreens were transplanted in 

 groups or as screens. 



There are now on the College grounds nearly six miles of walks and drives, 

 and to trim the borders and rake them over every ten days or two weeks is 

 no small task. 



The lawns on Faculty Row and around the buildings have been cut regu- 

 larly with horse or hand lawn mowers, and about twenty acres, including all 

 the remaining land between the west entrance and the vegetable garden, were 

 cut every two weeks with a one horse Buckeye mower. 



In the spring some seventy-five new and promising varieties of shrubs and 

 shade trees were purchased and planted on the grounds, to be used for pur- 

 poses of illustration as well as to serve as ornaments. 



GARDENS. 



Although the vegetable and fruit gardens have been for the most part 

 used for the work of the experiment station in testing varieties, methods, 

 etc., we have engaged to some extent in commercial fruit and vegetable 

 growing, in order that the students may acquire a practical knowledge of 

 the methods used in the production and marketing of the different crops. 

 The products have for the most part been sold to the students' boarding 

 clubs or to the faculty at wholesale rates, and although the entire work of 

 planting, cultivating, gathering and marketing has been done by students, 

 most of whom had had no previous experience, they will compare favorably 

 with those of the best commercial gardens. Daring the past year the sales 

 have averaged about one hundred dollars per month, and from present 

 appearances the income for the coming year will be at least two thousand 

 dollars. 



The small fruits passed the winter with little or no injury, and with the 

 exception of the strawberries, which were injured by the late spring frosts, 

 are giving full crops. 



ORCHARDS. 



The pear orchard is in excellent condition and has set a full crop of fruit. 

 The old cherry orchard is hanging full of fruit of varieties belonging to the 

 Duke and Morello classes. The sweet cherries have nearly all been killed 

 out by the severe winters, in part owing no doubt to the fact that the soil is 

 a stiff clay and poorly adapted to them. 



