50 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
We desire also to acknowledge the following gifts, for which 
the donors have our hearty thanks : 
February 1. Of R. Shore, Cornell University greenhouses, Ithaca, 
N. Y., package of slips containing specimens of many species of 
areenhouse plants. 
February 2. Of Daniel Batchelor, Utica, N. Y., four packages 
of vegetable novelties. 
February 11. Of L. T. Sanders, Collingsburg, La., scions of 
Yellow Forest apple. 
February 20. Of Daniel Batchelor, Utica, N. Y., package of 
seed of Momordica Charantia. 
February 22. Of Prof. L. H. Bailey, Jr., Agricultural College, 
Mich., package of seeds of Ignotum tomato. 
February 23. Of Dr. J. C. Arthur, LaFayette, Ind. slips of 
sixty named varieties of chrysanthemums. 
February 24. Of Peter M. Gideon, Excelsior, Minn., cions of 
Low, Wealthy, August, Excelsior, September, Gideon: Martha 
and Peter apples. : 
February 28. Of Charles Sumner Jacobs, Medford,! Mass., 
cions of Jacob’s Winter Sweet apple. 
February 28. Of Ephraim Link, Greenfield, Tenn., samples of 
two varieties of corn. 
March 3. Of William Session, Geneva, N. Y., cions of five 
varieties of apples. 
March 6. Of Iowa Agricultural College, Amas, Iowa, cions of 
ten varieties of plum; also cions of fifteen varieties of pear. 
March 6. Dr. E. Lawis Sturtevant, South Framingham, Mass., 
two packets of peas from Cuba. 
March 10. Of C. W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich.,. ten 
reports of Michigan Horticultural Society for 1887.| 
March 12. Of C. O. Haven, Southport, N.-Y., one package of 
kiln-dried Stowell’s Evergreen sweet corn. 
March 18. Of Whitney-Noyes Seed Company, Binghamton, 
N. Y., a quantity of choice and rare grass seeds. 
March 19. Of Iowa Ssed Company, Des Moines, Iowa, nine 
packets of vegetable seeds, a sample tuber of a new potato, 
anil the privilege of selecting seeds from their catalogue free 
of cost. 
March 19. Of Price & Reed, Albany, N. Y., five packets of 
vegetable seed. 
