148 MAINE STATE COLLEGE 



Report of Botanist and Entomologist. 



PROF. F L. HARVEY. 



The work of the division of Botany and Entonaolog}', the past 

 season, has been in the directions indicated below : 



BOTANY. 



1. Germination Experiments. — To determine the vitality and 

 purity of seeds sold in Maine. 



2. Testing Varieties of Grasses. — To deterraioe their adapta- 

 bility to Maine. 



3. Consideration of Potato Blight. — In an exigency bulletin 

 and more in detail for this Report. 



4. A Compilation (for this Report) of results of experiments 

 on Apple Scab, made under the auspices of the Agricultural 

 Department, Wtishingtoj], D. C. 



5. Examination of Eungi affecting Fruits, sent for determina- 

 tion by Fruit Grower-'. 



6. Examination of Weeds, Grasses and other plants sent for 

 determination. 



7. Collection of herbarium specimens of grasses and other 

 economic plants. 



8. Collection of seeds of weeds and other plants, for use in 

 naming seeds. 



9. Paper — "Fungi Injurious to Fruits." Read before the 

 State Pomological Society, and to appear in its Annual Report. 



10. Consideration of False Flax and Rib Grass in this Report. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



11. An Exigency Bulletin on the Apple Maggot. 



12. The Apple Maggot. — An extended article for this Report. 



13. Paper — "The Apple Maggot." Read before the Pomolog- 

 ical Society at Norway, Me. 



14. Preliminary study of a scale insect affecting the elms in 

 Maine. 



15. Preliminary study of the White Marked Tussock Moth 

 and the Fall Web Worm. 



16. Study of the Codling Moth to learn whether there are two 

 broods in Maine. 



