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Horticultural Personals
Prof. W. J. Beal, who has just
retired from the position of Secretary of
the American Pomological Society, is a
botanist from choice, and purposes doing
his best work in the future in the study
of botany and methods of instruction in
this science. He accepted the Chair of
Botany and Horticulture at our State Agricultural
College in 1870, not anticipating
that his severest work would be for twelve
years in the field of horticulture. But
Michigan has been the gainer thereby, and
while the change by which botany and
horticulture are given separate departments,
is welcomed by fruit growers in
Michigan, all accord to Prof. Beal the
credit of a large measure of the success which has been recently achieved in
placing Michigan pomology at the front.