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The plants are in excellent condition, doing great credit to both Prof. Hutt 

 and his florist, both of whom may be seen among their favorites in the accom- 

 panying picture of the interior of one of the greenhouses. There are six of 

 these in all, enclosing an area of a little over 7,000 square feet, and may be thus 

 enumerated: (i) The forcing house; (2) the propagating house; (3) horti- 

 cultural laboratory for the use of students^ provided with benches and all 

 needed appliances for each ; (4) the intermediate house ; (5) the tropical house, 

 and (7) the conservatory. 



The strawberry plot, just in the rear of the greenhouses, contains over one 

 hundred varieties in little sections side by side and plainly labelled for the infor- 

 mation of visitors. The results of his experimental test will be made public 

 through our report. 



From the roof of the College building proper, a beautiful view may be had 

 of the experimental plots of the farm, the dairy department, and the horticultural 

 building, of which latter an exterior view is also presented to our readers. 



This building includes both the botanical laboratory and the greenhouses. 

 Here are offices and lecture rooms of Prof. Hutt and Prof. Panton,. and these 

 are furnished with every modern appliance for the performance of first class 

 work. Prof. Panton's department is one of great value to fruit growers ; he is 

 constantly receiving plants and flowers for name, and gives ready responses to 

 such enquiries. His laboratory for the study of microscopy is fitted up so as to 

 afford each member of his class a separate table, microscope, and outfit. 

 Adjoining, he has a dark room for finishing up photographs, and thus science 

 and art are made to serve each other. Prof. Panton has just completed a work 

 which he calls " Insect Foes and How to Destroy Them," a book which is now 

 offered for sale at so low a price that no fruit grower or farmer need lack for the 

 latest information on this subject. 



The immense campus of about forty acres in the College front is an especial 

 feature of the landscape, and the fine stretch of open greensward is carefully 

 preserved according to the correct principles of landscape art, and any trees or 

 shrubs are placed in clumps and groups in such a manner as will not conceal 

 the many excellent views from the College. 



The ribbon beds in front would deserve a detailed description, if space 

 permitted. In one the letters O. A. C. are formed by plants of large silvery 

 Centaurea, the dark background is formed with Achyranthes, and the border 

 with Mesembryanthemum. 



At Walkerton we paid a visit to one of the applicants for experimental 

 work, Mr. A. E. Sherrington, a practical bee keeper and fruit grower, who is 

 quite an authority in his own section in both these departments. He has a 

 great fondness for experimental work, and has excellent soil for fruit growing. 

 His situation is inland, well representing the conditions prevailing in a large 

 portion of the county. Our frontispiece is a good representation of the central 



