261 
A survey of the vegetable garden industry in Hawaii is now 
in progress. Varieties of vegetables, soil and cultural condi- 
tions, transportation and marketing will be studied, and 
much valuable data is anticipated. 
XIV. Graduate Work. 
The Department is still so young that the offering of post- 
graduate work is chiefly a matter of the future. There are, 
however, facilities for individual research and investigation, 
and these opportunities are open to any who show ability to 
undertake work of an advanced character, and who have a 
bona fide purpose therein. 
There are, as has already been shown, a great variety of un- 
solved local botanical and horticultural problems, well worth 
the attention of students and practical men. One kind of 
avacado, for example, has a very thick, leathery skin (Fig. 3), 
admirably adapting it for long-distance shipping. A careful 
study of this variety would doubtless result in valuable knowl- 
edge of distinct financial importance. 
XV. The Morphology and Physiology of Plants. 
This course consists of lectures, laboratory and field work, 
recitations, and library reference work. It is given in the first 
semester, and counts three credits. It is required of Science, 
Agriculture, and Household Economics Freshmen. This 
course, with course 2, covers the fundamental principles of 
general botany. It includes detailed’ studies of the shoot, 
leaves, root, structure and ontogeny of the plant cell, pri- 
mary and secondary tissues, development of internal struc- 
ture, the general conditions of plant life, and the great proc- 
esses of nutrition, respiration, growth, movement, and repro- 
duction. 
The text required is Principles of Botany, by Bergan, and 
Davis, Strasburger, Kerner and Oliver, Coulter, and Beasey 
are the chief reference works. The laboratory exercises in- 
\olve the use of simple and compound microscopes, per- 
formance of selected experiments, and formation of herbaria. 
Field work includes mornhologic observations, and studies of 
plants in relation to environments. 
XVI. Systematic Botany. 
This course is organized in the same manner as Course 1. 
The same text-book is used. It is given in the second semester, 
and counts three credits. Required of Science, Agriculture, 
and Household Economics Freshmen. 
A careful survey is made of the chief plant groups, with 
individual studies of distinctive types, and of plant evolution. 
