DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 29' 



REPOKT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND LAND- 

 SCAPE GARDENING. 



To the President: 



Sir — T submit herewith the report of this department for the pasl 

 year : 



The first change in the organization of the department took phiccv 

 soon after the beginning of the year, when U. P. Hedrick, '93, was made 

 assistant professor of horticulture. 



CLASS ROOM AND LABORATORY WORK. 



During the fall an office in the second story of the Horticultural 

 Laboratory' was fitted up for Professor Hedrick, who entered lyjon his 

 duties with the opening of the College year, Prof. H. P. Gladden having 

 resigned July 1. 



The class-room instruction and much of the laboratory work has been 

 under his charge, and the following is his report: 



"During the fall term instruction in pomology was giyen to forty 

 eight students, mostly agi'icultural juniors, for fourteen weeks, and in 

 pomology and floriculture, one-half term each, to fifteen juniors in the 

 women's course. The subjects were taught by lectures, supplemented 

 in the afternoon of every other day by a study of the different species 

 and varieties of fruits, for the young men, and b^^ work with plants 

 once or twice a week by the young women, during the time floriculture 

 was being taught. 



"At the close of the fall term the members of the junior class in the 

 agricultural course elect work in either agriculture or horticultui'e, to 

 be carried through the remaining terms. 



"This year one-half of the class, eighteen in all, elected horticulture. 

 For the first of these elective studies a course in floriculture and winter 

 vegetable, gardening was offered in the winter term. A series of lec- 

 tures was given, supplemented by training in the greenhouse, and by 

 reading in various reference books. 



"In the greenhouse each student was given a certain crop to grow, 

 to experiment with, and to thoroughly inform himself upon. 



"In the spring term the topic of 'spraying' was considered, two days 

 per week being spent, with Lodeman's 'Spraying of Plants' as a text- 

 book, while Mr. R. H. Pettit of the Entomological Department took the 

 class for three days per week, giving them a series of lectures on 

 'Insects Injurious to Horticultural Crops.' As far as possible, students 

 in tliis class were, for their required labor, given charge of the spraying 

 opei-alions in the gardens and grounds. 



"A class of thirty-llirt'e juniors met llnee days per week during the 

 spi'ing term for lectures in lands(\ape gardening. A few field days were 

 given in order to aft'ord a better idea of the landscape effects on the 

 campus. 



''Thirty-seven sophomores in the agricultural course and eighteen in 

 the women's course were given instruction in plant propagation and 



