Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Ceci R, Caft, m. $., I ' rofe.ssor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. Since I ' rof. Taft assumed his (iri here the department of which he is superintendent has been freatly aided in its worlv hv liic rebuilding of the greenhouses and forcing house and the completion of a horticultural labora- tory, the fust of the kind in this country. Prof. Taft was born August 22. 1S59. at Mendon. .Mass.. and enjoyed the usual public and high schoo l education. In 1882 he graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College and then from the College of Agriculture of Boston Universit}-. He at once secured a position as assistant professor of horticulture at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, which he held till 1885. and from 1SS3 to 1885 he was also bursar, and from 1SS6 to 188S assistant in zoolog v of that institution. I lis next work was that of professor of horticulture at the Missouri State University College of Agriculture. Prof. Taft came to the Michigan Agricultural College in 1888 and since then, in addition to the works heretofore iTientioned. has been a member of the Jixecutive Hoard of the State Horticultural Society for seven years, was chairman of the catalogue committee for Michigan of the American Pomological Society, and has from time to lime issued many interesting and valuable bulletins from his department.

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