DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND^JG^TIOULTURE. 



Extracts from R 



Began work March 11th; made hot-bed, ana started early plants. 



Cleared the ground designed for Garden purposes of rubbish, corn 

 stalks, cane roots, etc. Then manured somewhat over two acres and 

 a-half, putting on the whole about two hundred and twenty-five 

 loads. 



As soon as the ground became dry enough it was plowed. This, 

 however, was not well done, being plowed altogether too shallow to 

 withstand the drouth which soon came oil After plowing, the 

 whole was laid out into nine blocks, one hundred and sixty by two 

 hundred and seventy-two and a-fourth feet, separated by drives fif- 

 teen feet in width. One acre of this, on the east side, was turned 

 over to Professor Mathews, for small fruits; and it was decided not 

 to break up the south-east half acre of sod, so that in the Garden 

 proper there are seven acres and a-half, exclusive of the space taken 

 up by the drives. 



The ordinary Garden crops were planted in their time. All suf- 

 fered more or less from the excessive drouth of the spring and sum- 

 mer. There were raised in all one hundred and eighty varieties of 

 vegetables, comprising plants of twenty-three different species. 



A bed was prepared, and set with the Linnauis variety of Rhu- 

 barb. A large percentage of the plants were killed by the drouth. 

 SucL as lived are doing well, and will be ready for use next se-J >n. 



In the fall a bed was begun for Asparagus, by heavily manuring, 

 and len thoroughly plowing and subsoiling. It will be re-manured 

 durii g t he winter, and then subsoiled again in the spring, wl 

 it will be ready for plants. 



During the fall two hundred and sixty rods of tile draining were 

 put down under the supervision of the Farm Superintendent, Mr. 

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