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when they can learn easiest and this Council of Horticulture could 

 undertake nothing more worthy than to foster this work as much as 

 possible, if we really wish to further the interests of agriculture and 

 horticulture in our country. 



GOVERNMENT AID TO HORTICULTURE. 

 B. T. GALLOWAY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Under the title assigned to me, namely "Government Aid," I pro- 

 pose to briefly outline the scope of the work now being conducted by 

 the national government along purely horticultural lines. Much work, 

 such as pathological, entomological, and other investigations, is also 

 being done, but as these lines bear indirectly on horticulture and have 

 been treated by others, I will not touch upon them here. To make my 

 remarks better understood, I will say that the investigations of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, where practically all the directly horticul- 

 tural work of the government is being conducted, are divided into defi- 

 nite and specific projects. These projects, for administrative purposes, 

 are grouped under separate and distinct heads, with responsible men 

 placed in charge of each group. The Department of Agriculture is 

 now expending for purely horticultural work approximately $175,000 a 

 year. It is co-operating with a large number of state experiment sta- 

 tions in all lines of the investigations which will be briefly described. 

 The groups of projects which we will now discuss are as follows: 



(1) Horticultural explorations. 



(2) Introduction, propagation and dissemination of seeds and 

 plants secured from foreign countries. 



(3) Securing, propagating and disseminating new and rare seeds 

 and plants originated in this country, which can not be disseminated 

 through the regular channels of trade. 



(4) Plant breeding investigations. 



(5) Tropical and semi-tropical work, including the testing, propa- 

 'gation and dissemination of seeds and plants adapted to tropical sec- 

 tions. 



(6) General horticultural investigations in connection with farm 

 management work. 



(7) Experimental studies, demonstrations and tests at the Arling- 

 ton Experimental Farm. 



(8) Systematic horticultural studies in reference to the identifica- 

 tion and description of fruit varieties, the simplification of fruit nomen- 

 clature, etc. 



(9) Fruit marketing investigations, including experimental export 

 shipments of fruits. 



(10) Fruit transportation and storage prevention of injury in 

 transit, etc. 



(11) Viticultural investigations. 



(12) Fruit district investigations the determination of the 

 adaptability of fruit varieties to different sections. 



