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ture, classification, and description of varieties. This bulletin is the 

 second in the peony series issued by the Experiment Station as a 

 result of co-operative work with the American Peony Society. It 

 has been received with marked favor by peony growers in this coun- 

 try and in Europe. It may be allowable to quote from a letter, 

 dated August ist, from Peter Barr, the veteran plant grower of 

 England, whose death has just been announced : " I congratulate 

 you representing Cornell University for the finest contribution to 

 the literature of the peony that has ever fallen into my hands." Mr. 

 Barr has been collecting and studying peonies for over forty years. 



The department has issued a bulletin in the same technical series 

 entitled "American Varieties of Beans." This bulletin is the result 

 of three years' work by C. D. Jarvis, Ph.D. It contains 112 pages, 

 three colored plates, in addition to thirteen full-page half-tones. 



The department has issued an eight-page circular giving a digest 

 of the findings revealed by a survey of the trucking region of Long 

 Island, conducted during December and January, 190S-9, by Mr. 

 B. H. Crocheron. 



V. departmental needs. 



(a) Glass houses. — The part of the new range of glass houses 

 allotted to the Department of Horticulture is entirely inadequate 

 With the space at the disposal of the Department, the floricultural 

 crops produced commercially in the state cannot be properly rep- 

 resented either for demonstration or for experiment. The space 

 for instruction in winter gardening will not meet the demands made 

 by the rapidly-growing classes and increasing scope of teaching 

 effort. At least $20,000 will be required to equip glass houses ade- 

 quately to represent a state in which the floricultural interests stand 

 ahead of any in the Union. 



(b) Land. — The department has need of an area of land, at 

 least ten acres in extent, on which to plant in permanent form sev- 

 eral important groups of herbaceous plants for study and reference. 

 This area would be equipped with such important groups as peony, 

 rose, phlox, iris, and many bulbous plants. The demand for infor- 

 mation on these ornamental plants is increasing each year. Need- 

 less to say, the area shouuld be conveniently located and be on land 

 of a reasonably uniform character. 



(c) Laboratory for study cmd manufacture of horticultural pro- 

 ducts. — The Department of Horticulture should add to its courses 

 one in horticultural technology ; but this must be essentially a lab- 

 oratory course which will include the commercial methods of 

 canning fruits, vegetables, and the manufacture of jams and the 



