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way the seed cost $1.44 per pound which is considerable below the market 

 price. 



Nurser}' work has been continued and extended. The nursery at present 

 contains about 60,000 coniferous and 100,000 hardwood seedlings. The 

 nursery now supplies nearly all the stock used in our planting. About 

 8,000 trees were planted into permanent situations this spring. No trees 

 have been purchased except 1,250 small arbor-vitae. A tool-room at the 

 nursery has been erected at a cost of about S40. 



The number of photograph plates has been increased to 447 and lantern 

 shdes to the number of 105. 



The collections have been greatly increased during the year. We have 

 acquired o^-e^ 700 different numbered pieces of wood from the Philippine 

 Islands; 50 pieces of wood from Venezuela; 15 pieces of wood from Hon- 

 duras; 14 pieces of wood from Haiti; 11 pieces of wood from Cuba; 22 

 pieces of wood from California. From Japan numerous specimens of timber 

 and forest products. Numerous specimens of woods from our own state 

 have been secured. The number of herbarium specimens has been increased. 

 We are greatly in need of more room in which to exhibit these specimens. 

 They are now placed in four different buildings in no one of which is any- 

 thing like suitable. quarters. 



The entire schedule of classes in this department has been carried out 

 as far as time would permit. For lack of assistants and on account of the 

 large number of students in elementary forestr}'' it was found impossible to 

 give the class the full amount of work designed. There were fifteen stu- 

 dents registered for forestry in the fall of 1904 as against four the fall of 

 1903. The total number of different students that have received instruc- 

 tion in this department this year is 67. The number of hours per week 

 of my time for class work has varied from 22 to 29. 



The correspondence of this department is increasing and takes no small 

 amount of my time. Attempts have been made to secure assistance in 

 this but no satisfactory arrangement has been made. 



Respectfull}^ submitted, 

 E. E. BOGUE, 



Professor of Forestry. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 30, 1905. 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE. 



To President J. L. Snyder: 



I herewith submit the annual report for the Horticultural Department 

 for the college year ending June 30, 1905. With this report my third year 

 in charge of this department is ended, and with it I shall sever my connec- 

 tion with your institution. It is fitting, in thus concluding the term of 

 work, that a brief sketch of the progress of the past three years be given. 



During the time the department has been in my hands, the chief aim, 

 almost the sole aim, has been to build up the work of instruction, which, 

 it seemed to me, had fallen behind that of other departments of the col- 

 lege, and behind other lines of work which came into my hands. A fair 

 measure of success has attended the effort, as manifested by a greater num- 



