Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 133]

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133 environments, design and draw full plans for its improvement, indicating position of all prominent objects, including the kinds and groups of trees and other plants. These plants, with specifications, are to be deposited in the library of the school. Excursions are made when found practicable for the study of public and private grounds. Important reference books a r e : Downing's "Landscape Gardening"; Weideman's " Beautifying Country Homes " ; Robinson's " Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris." Floriculture.—Fourteen weeks are occupied in the study of the kinds, propagation, growth and care of flowering and other ornamental plants. Each student has practice in propagating by cuttings and otherwise, in potting and shifting, and care of plants requiring various treatments. Insects and diseases with the remedies are thoroughly treated, and the means of securing vigor of growth, or abundance of flowers, are studied and illustrated by practice. Among the reference books the following are important: Henderson's "Practical Floriculture"; Loudon's "Encyclopedia of P l a n t s " ; Parkman's " B o o k of Roses." For statement of studies in Botany and Entomology and for Microscopy and Fungology, see school of natural history. For Agricultural Chemistry, see school of chemistry. Horticultural History and Rural Lata.—Ten weeks. This term's study nearly corresponds with that for the same time in the agricultural course, and when alike the two classes are made one. Students of this course have special study of the history and literature of horticulture, so far as these are distinct from that of agriculture. All thesis and other required manuscripts in the college of agriculture must be on regulation paper, of the size of 8x11^ inches.

HORTICULTURAL COURSE.

Required

for

Degree of B. S. in School of

F I R S T YEAR.

Horticulture.

1. 2. 3.

Elements of Horticulture, Chemistry, Trigonometry and Advanced geometry. Chemistry, Free H a n d Drawing, American authors. Vegetable Physiology, Chemistry, Rhetoric.

SECOND YEAR.

1. 2. 3.

Botany, Agricultural Chemistry (soils and plants), German. Botany, Agricultural Chemistry (tillage and fertilizers), German. Economic Entomology, Zoology, German.

THIRD YEAR.

1. 2. 3.

Pomology and Forestry, Architecture and Engineering, Geology or Ancient History. Plant Structures and Management, Physics, Mediaeval History. Landscape gardening, physics, modern history.