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Caption: Course Catalog - 1894-1895
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GENERAL, LIST OF SUBJECTS. 133 tion, heating and ventilation, and general management of greenhouses, and the study of the kinds, propagation, growth, and care of flowering plants. Each student has practice in propagating by cuttings and otherwise, in potting and shifting, and in care of plants requiring various treatment. Insects and diseases, with remedies, are treated, and the means of securing vigor of grow.th and abundance of flowers are studied and illustrated by practice. Henderson's Practical Floriculture. Winter term, three-fifths study. Mr. MCCLUEE. 5. GARDENS.—Kitchen and market gardens are made the first subjects of study, after which ornamental and landscape gardening occupies the time. Henderson's Gardening for Profit; Long's Ornamental Gardening. Spring term, full study. Mr. MCCLUER. 6. PLANT PROPAGATION.—The modification of plants under cultivation, and the methods of securing and perpetuating desirable variations; self- and cross-fertilization; fertilization with much or little pollen; hybridization; seeds of different degrees of maturity, size, etc.; bud variation and graft hybrids; bud and graft unions; influence of stock on cion, and cion upon stock; whole and piece roots. In this course some account is given of what has been done and an attempt is made to reach conclusions as to what may be done, in the line of the subject. Lectures, reference readings, and laboratory work. Fall term, full study. Professor BURRILL and Mr. MCCLUER. Bequired: Botany 1. HYGIENE. See Physical Culture 2. ITALIAN. See under Romance Languages and Literature. LATIN. 1. LIVY.—Selections from the XXI and XXII books. Hannibal and his contest with the Romans. Sight reading, Eutropius. Prose composition based upon the text of Livy in connected passages. A thorough review of noun and verb syntax. Fall term, full study. Professor BARTON. 2. CICERO.—De Amicitia and De Senectute. Prose composition based on the text read. An outline of the philosophical
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