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132 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 8. SEMINARY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.—Training in the use of the sources. Once a week for two hours throughout the year. Two-fifths study. Assistant Professor GREENE. Course 8 is open to graduates and also to seniors of high standing who take or have taken History 3. Students who propose to write their baccalaureate theses in this department are strongly urged to do so in connection with the work of course 8. Courses 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 may be taken as full studies by graduates and seniors of high standing who are willing to do a prescribed amount of additional work. HORTICULTURE. 1. INTRODUCTORY COURSE.—This course is intended to give a general idea of horticultural work such as all students of agriculture should have, and at the same time to prepare those who wish it for more advanced work along the same lines. Studies are made in the planting and care of nurseries, orchards, vineyards, small fruits, gardens, and ornamental grounds. Students are given practice in propagating by grafts, buds, cuttings, seeds, etc.; in the pruning, training, or other management of different fruits, in transplanting and in the preparation of and use of remedies against insects and diseases. Barry's Fruit Garden, lectures, reference reading, and laboratory work. Fall term, two-fifths study: and spring term, three-fifths study. Mr. MCCLUER. 2. FRUIT CULTURE.—Orchards, vineyards, small fruit plantations, and their products constitute the main subjects of this term's work. Lectures are given upon propagating, planting, and cultivating trees and vines: upon identifying, classifying, and preserving fruits, and upon diseases and remedies. Studies are made upon illustrative material in the laboratory, and visits to the orchards and plantations form a part of the instruction. Fall term, full study. Mr. MCCLUER. 3. FORESTRY.—This course embraces a study of forest trees and their uses, their natural distribution, and their artificial production. The relations of forest and climate are studied, and the general topics of forestry legislation and economy are discussed. Lectures. Winter term, two-fifths study. Professor BURRILL. ,4. PLANT HOUSES AND HOUSE PLANTS.—This study includes gardening and landscape architecture; the methods of construe-
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