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HORTICULTURE 



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NOTES FROM THE MASSACHU- 

 SETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 

 A Carnation Show. 



The department of floriculture 

 have arranged for a carnation and 

 rose exhibit in Wilder Hall Friday 

 evening. April 24, and Saturday, April 

 2,',. It is felt that the students at the 

 college should receive a better train- 

 in? in varieties of commercial crops 

 than they can get from materials now 

 grown in the vicinity. The students 

 feel that they cannot afford to travel 

 for this study, therefore this exhibit 

 has been arranged. Professor E. A. 

 \\hite has written many of the most 

 prominent rose and carnation growers, 

 askin.? if Ihey would send one or two 

 dozen blooms of their standard varie- 

 ties for exhibition at this lime, and 

 has received many cordial replies. 

 Proposed New Greenhouses. 



The trustees of the college are ask- 

 ing for a legislative appropriation of 

 $34,000 for a new range of greenhouses 

 of modern commercial type, with an 

 attached teaching building for use of 

 the floricultural department It is not 

 the intention of the college to engage 

 in commercial floriculture, but a new 

 range, adapted to giving the students 

 up-to-date instruction in methods of 

 growing cut ilowers for the trade, is. 

 badly needed. It is expected to build 

 an instruction building costing about 

 $15,000. This will contain a large lab- 

 oratory and work room to accommo- 

 date at least fifty men at one time, a 

 class room for one hundred men, 

 smaller class rooms, office and a room 

 for the exhibition of material used in 

 greenhouse construction. The base- 

 ment will contain a soil and fertilizer 

 room, a cool room for bulbs and rooms 

 for storage of pots and implements. 



The greenhouse range as now 

 planned will consist of a palm house 

 30x40 ft. on the east end of the general 

 work-room. From the south side of 

 this work-roo:n a house 12 feet wide 

 and about 180 feet long will run di- 

 rectly south. This will be used tor 

 propagation and for general plants. 

 On the east and west sides of this 

 low, narrow house the special houses 

 of the range will be built. This will 

 provide for a full southern exposure 

 for each house. The range as planned 

 includes a students' house for special 

 student work, 30x50 ft.; violet house, 

 24x50 ft.; chrysanthemum and bedding- 

 plant house, 24x50 ft.; lettuce house, 

 24x50 t't.; rose house 24x50 ft., a carna- 

 tion house, cucumber house and tomato 

 house, each of the same dimensions. 



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