DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



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service here. The new instructors are Mr. C. P. Halligan, a graduate of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and formerly an instructor 

 there; and Mr. O. I. Gregg, a graduate of this college in the class of 1907. 

 Mr. Halligan has had special training and experience in landscape 

 gardening and Avill give particular attention to that work here. Mr. 

 Gregg will have immediate charge of the experimental work of the de- 

 partment, with a small amount of class-room work in pomology and 

 gardening. 



Respectfully submitted, 



S. W. FLETCHER, 

 Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 30, 1907. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 



President J. L. Snyder: 



The following is my report for the year ending June 30, 1907 : 



A summary of the classes and number of students enrolled and 



instructed is as follows: 



Class. 



Graduates. 



Srs. and Jrs. in Agric. and 



forestry 



Seniors and women 



Seniors and women 



Juniors, agricultural 



Juniors, agricultural 



Juniors, agricultural 



Juniors, agricultural 



Juniors, forestry 



Sophomores, agricultural 



Sophomores, agricultural 



Sophomores, women 



Sophomores, women 



Freshmen, agricultural 



Freslmien, women 



Freshmen, agricultural 



Freshmen, women 



Sub-freshmen, agricultural. . . . 

 Sub-freshmen, agricultural. . . . 



Sub-freshmen, women 



Short courses 



Subject. 



Plant physiology 



Plant physiology ". . 



Histology 



Plant pathology 



Grasses and other forage 



plants 



Weeds 



Trees and shrubs.. 



Wood teclmologj^ 



Plant histology 



Ecology 



Trees and shrubs 



Plant histology 



Taxonomy 



Taxonomy 



Fruits and Seeds 



Fruits and Seeds 



Beginning 



Beginning 



Beginning 



Beginning 



Term. 



Fall, winter, 

 spring 



Spring. 

 Fall. . . 

 Spring. 

 FaU. . . 



Winter. 

 Winter . 

 Spring.. 

 Winter. 

 Winter. 

 Spring.. 

 Spring.. 

 Winter . 

 Spring. . 

 Spring.. 

 FaU. . . . 

 FaU. . . . 

 FaU. . . . 

 Spring.. 

 Spring. . 

 Winter . 



Hours per 

 week. 



9 



7 

 9 

 9 



4, i term 



4, i term 

 5, 1 term 



8 

 7 

 3 



5, * term 



6 

 3 

 3 

 4i 

 4i 

 2 

 2 

 4 

 5, 8 wks. 



Total . 



Students 

 enroUed. 



1.3 



10 



4 



61 



25 

 27 

 26 



4 

 42 

 45 

 31 

 10 

 40 

 28 

 69 

 39 

 15 

 39 

 15 



3 



556 



BOTANIC GARDEN. 



As mentioned in previous reports, in three successive years, 1904, 

 1905, 1906, there were three unusual freshets which overflowed very 

 nearly all the garden, covering it with water each time for a period of 

 five to six days or more. The freshet in the early spring of 1904 did 

 comparatively little injury to the plants, since they were in a dormant 



