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nurseries, orchards, tree plantations and ornamental grounds. The instruction will be from text-books and by lectures in the class room, together with illustrations and. applications in the propagating and greenhouses, botanical garden and arboretum, and upon the vegetable and fruit grounds. See also pages 26 and 54. 2.—Composition and classes of soils, with reference to their uses; Fertilizers; Vegetable physiology, and laws of growth of plants; Chemical treatment of soils; Manufacture and application of manure ; Laying out and mapping of grounds ; Mechanical treatment of soils; Drainage ; Insects injurious to vegetation. 3.—Fruit growing ; Planting and treating of orchards ; Forest culture ; Management of Nurseries; Propagating, grafting, etc. ; Plans of orchards, gardens, etc.; Records ; Management of market and vegetable gardens ; Small fruit culture. 4.—Care of hot and green-houses; Propagating houses; Conservatories; Floriculture ; Garden architecture; Ornamentation; Green-house work; Landscape gardening ; Ancient and foreign horticulture. ENGINEERING a n d ARCHITECTURE. See the Schools of Engineering and the School of Architecture, pages 27 to 36; also the courses of study on pages 55 and 56. CHEMISTRY. To accommodate those who have a particular object in view, this department has three special courses of Laboratory work arranged. See also pages 37 and 57, and list of Periodicals, page 51. Agricultural. 1.—Inorganic, Organic, and Agricultural Chemistry; Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of Salts ; Chemical Physics. 2.—Analysis of Clays, Marls, Mineral Waters, Manures, Soils and Vegetable Products. 3.—Isolation of Organic Acids and Bases; Estimation of Hydrogen, Carbon, Sulphur, Sugar, Tannin, etc. 4.—Analysis of Air, Illuminating Gas, etc.; Study of Poisons. Technical a n d Pharmaceutical. 1.—The same as AGRICULTURAL, except Agricultural Chemistry. 2.—Quantitative Analysis of Dolomite, Marl, Silicates and Ores; Preparation of Acids, Alkalies and Salts. 3.—The same as in AGRICULTURAL, with Electroplating, Bleaching, Dyeing, Tanning, and Assaying. 4.—Same as in AGRICULTURAL, with Photography. Metallurgical. 1.—Inorganic Chemistry; Chemical Physics; Qualitative and Blowpipe Analyses of Alloys, etc. 2.—Analysis of Gold, Silver, Copper and other Ores, also Slags of Furnaces; Assays of Bullion, and Ores of Zinc, Antimony, Tin, etc. 3.—Analysis of Iron, Steel, Nickel, Cobalt, etc. ; Fuel; ElectroMetallurgy ; Preservation of Wood ; Lime, Mortar and Cements.

4.—Same as in AGRICULTURAL.