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Caption: Course Catalog - 1875-1876
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THE UNI VERSI'l Y. ?g concerning them find immediate application in the fields and gardens. Throughout the course as far as practicable students are required to make extended observations upon, and collections of, objects studied. Facilities are provided for original investigations. Excursions are taken as found expedient and possible, and reports of visits to special objects and places, either during term time or vacation, are received as part of the required study. At the end of the course a Thesis is required upon some allowed subject connected with Horticultural interests or pursuits. This must be the record of original experiment or research with such deductions as the author, under the supervision of the Professor in charge, may consider appropriate and correct. Suitable illustrations are to accompany the paper. After reading as required, the Theses will be deposited in the library of the school. APPARATUS. The Apparatus for the practical portions of the course of instruction is well provided, and the means of illustration are fast accumulating. Of ioo acres of land devoted to the use of the school, 20 are planted with forest timber trees, including many valuible kinds, both native and introduced. An apple orchard of over 1,200 varieties is beginning to bear, several different kinds of pears are growing, also many varieties of cherries, grapes, blackberries, strawberries, currents, goose • berries, etc. The nurseries are well filled with young ornamental and useful plants, and in the vegetable gardens a large collection has been made. An Arboretum and a Botanical Garden have been commenced, in which it is proposed to gather all the native and hardy exotic plants. Twenty acres are devoted to the building and ornamental grounds, where much pains are taken to make both summer and winter ornamentation attractive and pleasing. A fine green-house, 36 by 70 feet, fiis lied with a rich collection of valuable plants. Other structures afford ample room for the propagation of a large stock of rlants, and also illustrate the different modes of heating. The cabinets include many illustrative specimens, and the library contains the best horticultural literature known to the world. HORTICULTURISTS COURSE. FIRST YEAR. (Same as Agriculturists' course.) SECOND YEAR. 1. Forestry and Drainage; Soils; German. jj. General Horticulture; Zoology; German. 3 . Zoolog3'; Astronomy; German. THIRD YEAR. 1. Orchards and Fruits; Ancient History; German or French. 2- Agl. Chemistry; Physics; German or French. 3 . Modern History; Physics; German or French. FOURTH YEAR. 1. Horiculture; Geology; Mental Science. SJ. Microscopy; Meteorology and Physical Geography; History of Civilization. 3 . Landscape Gardening ; Political Economy, Laboratory and Thesis.
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