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greenhouses this coming winter it will be needful to expend 

 a thousand dollars very soon. Doubtless we can do it, but 

 we really ought to spend two or three, or more, thousand dol- 

 lars in order to have a good plant. The method we have 

 followed I am very tired of. We take a deal of trouble, 

 scrimp and go on tick, and finally get a good deal less than 

 we ought to have. It will not be economical to put heat into 

 our present house and build a cheap and small potting house, 

 and then next year add another small house, and go on patch- 

 ing up and piecing out. If necessary, why we will do so of 

 course, but I feel it would be better to stop where we are 

 until the State has given us a good sized appropriation for 

 enlargement and improvement of Laboratory and Greenhouse. 

 Then we can go ahead in good shape. 



Meanwhile, we must find occupation for Britton and pre- 

 pare to carry the law-makers to the point of giving us 

 $20,000 . . . 



I will go on a collecting tour and get a mass of material, 

 and see that there is enough to employ Britton and hold him 

 until we can mature the greenhouse and Horticulture busi- 

 ness. . . . 



As preliminary to asking for appropriations would it not 

 be well to get ready and send to all the important FAIRS this 

 fall, a Station exhibit to interest and instruct the people? 



I am thinking of coming home in the first week of Septem- 

 ber, and will help in this line of Chr. Endeavor. The things 

 we can exhibit are: 



1st. Babcock test, if there are any places where it has not 

 been sufficiently shown. 



2nd. Back numbers of Reports and Bulletins that are in 

 our lumber room can be put in circulation in considerable 

 numbers. 



3rd. Station Chemical and Mycol. Exhibit. An abbrevia- 

 tion of, or selection from the Ch. Exhibit we used to send 

 around, but made attractive by some simple expts. e. g. 



