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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

These, with all the adjuncts of trees and flowering shrubs, lawns, beds of flowers and foliage plants, walks of different materials and styles of laying out, give illustration to the class-room work in landscape gardening. A greenhouse contains a collection of plants of great value for the classes in floriculture and landscape gardening, besides furnishing students with practice in greenhouse management. The cabinet contains a series of colored plaster-casts of fruits prepared at the University; models of fruits and flowers by Auzoux, of Paris; collections of seeds of native and exotic plants; of specimens of native and foreign woods; of beneficial and injurious insects, and specimens showing their work; numerous dry and alcholicspecimens and preparations; maps, charts, diagrams, drawings, etc. The college has a supply of compound microscopes and apparatus, and students have opportunity to learn their use, and to make practical investigations with them. The herbarium is rich in specimens of useful and noxious plants, including many of the fungous parasites which cause disease to cultivated crops.

AGRICULTURAL COURSE. Requiredfor the degree of B. S., in College of Agriculture.

FIRST YEAR.

1. Elements of Agriculture; Chemistry; Trigonometry; Shop practice (optional). 2. Elements of Horticulture; Chemistry; British Authors, or Free Hand Drawing. 3. Economic Entomology; Chemistry; Rhetoric.

SECOND YEAR.

1. Chemistry and Laboratory Practice; Botany; German. 2. Agricultural Chemistry (Soils and Plants); Zoology or Botany; German. 3. Agricultural Chemistry (Tillage, Fertilizers, Foods); Vegetable Physiology; German.

THIRD YEAR.

1. Agricultural Engineering and Architecture; Animal Anatomy and Physiology; German. 2. Animal Husbandry; Veterinary Science; Veterinary Materia Medica (optional extra); Physics or Geology. 3. Landscape Gardening; Veterinary Science; Physics or Geology.

FOURTH YEAR.

1. Physiography; Mental Science; History of Civilization. 2. Rural Economy; Constitutional History; Logic. 3. History of Agriculture and Rural Law; Political Economy; Laboratory Work.