Wednesday Evening, February 12 



HORTICULTURAL BANQUET 



The Alh^i^ibra 



Toasts 



Samuel Fraser, Toastmaster 



Dean L. H. Bailey - "Development of Vegetable Garden- 

 ing and Floriculture at Cornell." 

 E. H. Hallett - ----- "Neighbors" 



Dr. E. M. Mills - - - "The Amateur Horticulturist" 

 L. S. Tenny - - "The Farm Bureau and the Horticulturist" 

 W. L. BoNNEY ----- _ _ "Muckers" 



DEVELOPMENT OF VEGETABLE GARDENING AND 

 FLORICULTURE AT CORNELL 



L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, New York 



The horticultural work in the colleges of agriculture is now 

 beginning to be separated into its component parts. What these 

 component parts will ultimately be, no one is yet prepared to say; 

 but there are three main lines that are now accepted, these being 

 pomology or fruit-growing, floriculture or flower-growing, and oleri- 

 culture or vegetable-growing. At this College of Agriculture, we have 

 alreadj^ segregated the pomology. The floriculture and vegetable- 

 gardening are still in one department, although we have an officer 

 specially representing each one of these sub-groups. 



It is our purpose to separate the floriculture and the vegetable- 

 gardening into two departments. If the appropriations that we 

 expect are allowed to us this year, it is my purpose to recommend to 

 the Board of Trustees that the Department of Floriculture and 

 Vegetable-Gardening shall be separated into two coordinate units. 

 Whether the fruit-growing, flower-growing and vegetable-gardening 

 shall be three wholly separate departments so far as administration 

 is concerned is yet an open question. It may be best to have these 

 departments combined under a committee or some other arrangement. 



