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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876
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35 common school branches, but they will receive greater benefit from it if they have made better preparation, especially if they have a good knowledge of Botany and Chemistry. They should not be less than eighteen years of age. The studies in this course are arranged in the following order: 1. Soils—Origin and Characteristics, Agricultural Engineering and Architecture, General Horticulture, or Anima! Anatomy and Physiology. 2. Tillage and Fertilizers, Animal Husbandry, Rural Economy, or Veterinary Science. 3. History of Agriculture, Rural Law, Practical Entomology, Landscape Gardening, or Veterinary Science. SCHOOL OF H O R T I C U L T U R E . O B J E C T OF T H E SCHOOL. The aim of this school is to afford a scientific and practical education especially adapted to the wants of those who cultivate garden and orchard plants, or wish to manage nurseries, parks and pleasure grounds. INSTRUCTION. The instruction is both theoretical and practical. The class room recitations and lectures are supplemented by instructive practice in the fields and plant-houses. The course which is recommended for those intending to prepare for the duties of the practical horticulturist, is given below. The studies of the first year are mainly scientific, and are intended as a foundation for the technical branches which follow; but constant endeavor is made to render Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, etc., useful and practical without diminishing their scientific thoroughness and interest. At the end of the course a Thesis is required upon some subject connected with Horticultural interests or pursuits. This must be the record of original experiment or research, with such deductions as the author may consider appropriate and correct. Suitable illustrations are to accompany the paper. All Theses will be deposited in the library of the school. APPARATUS. Ample provision is made for the practical illustration of the subjects taught. The cabinet contains among other things: a series of colored plaster-casts of fruits prepared at the University; modeles clastiques of fruits and flowrers by Auzoux of Paris; collections of seeds of native and exotic plants ; of specimens of native and foreign woods; of beneficial and injurous insects, and specimens showing their work ; numerous dry and alcoholic specimens and preparations ; maps, charts
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