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ber of students taking the work in horticulture; by far better facilities for 

 teaching; by the successful change from the wholly unsatisfactory system 

 of student labor to a system of laboratory courses; and by a much better 

 grade of work from the students. 



The chief changes in the equipment of the department during the past 

 three years have been in the laboratory, the interior of which has been 

 practically remodeled. For the old tool-room, carpenter shop, and post- . 

 office, which occupied the main floor of the building, two good laboratory 

 rooms have been substituted. A third laborator}^ room has also been added 

 in the basement. On the upper floor a small laboratory for plant diseases, 

 an herbarium and stock room, and the club room for the student Horti- 

 cultural Club, have been furnished. Possibly the most valuable addition 

 to the building, however, is a small, but perfectly equipped greenhouse, 

 the generous gift of the Lord & Burnham Green House Construction Co. 

 The main range of greenhouses, built and chiefly used in the past for show 

 and commercial purposes, has been almost rebuilt to adapt the various 

 houses to laboratory purposes, for which they are now used almost ex- 

 clusively. 



But the most satisfactory improvement, has been the addition of a num- 

 ber of courses in horticulture, and the increased number of students taking 

 them. Fifteen courses are now offered by the department. These are, 

 with the number of students taking them : 



Plant Propagation and Vegetable Gardening 70 



Laboratory Work in Above Course 55 



Pomology 25 



Laboratory Work in Pomology 25 



Landscape Gardening 18 



Floriculture for Women 18 



Floriculture and Vegetable Forcing 8 



Laborator}^ Work in Floriculture and \'egetable Forcing . . 8 



Spraying of Plants 4 



Laboratory Work in Spraying of Plants 4 



Plant Breeding 16 



Harvesting and Marketing 16 



Evolution of Horticultural Plants 14 



Experimental Horticulture 14 



Forest Tree Propagation (Added this year) 



Total 295 



To handle the above number of students the time and attention of the 

 head of the department, and of all the assistants has been very fully occu- 

 pied. At the beginning of the school year the services of Mr. A. G. Craig 

 were secured as an additional instructor. In the spring term still more 

 help was required, and Mr. J. G. Moore was secured as a student assistant. 

 With these exceptions, the personnel of the department remained the same 

 as in the past year, Mr. Thomas Gunson, Mr. C. A. McCue, and Mr. Clifford 

 Gibson constituting the other members of the department staff. It gives 

 me pleasure to say that all the men with whom I have been associated 

 have performed their duties faithfully, and have added much to the pleas- 

 ant running order of the work in teaching. 



But few changes have been made in the orchard, garden and campus 



