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176 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES 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 construction, heating, and ventilation, and general management of greenhouses, and the study of the kinds, propagation, growth and care of flowering plants. Bach 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 growth and abundance of flowers are studied and illustrated by practice. Henderson \? Practical Floriculture. Winter term, three-fifths study. Mr. MOCLUER. 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 oross-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. Required. Botany 1. ITALIAN 1. GRAMMAR AND READING.—Grandgent's Italian Grammar, reading of modern authors ; Dante's Divina Commedia,
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