Caption: Magazine - The Reptonian (1917 Selections)
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T h < I 9 t ? L' ( / W o // / (t n THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL COURSE IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS It is always interesting to trace the development of any moi m- * which has for its ideal and aim, something not utilitarian only, but t l*ribly beautiful as well. Any scheme of things which can claim a its ultimate goal such apparently divergenl and differentiated aims is likely t move rapidly because of its appeal. It seems safe to say, then, that it is t •his combination of the theoretical and the practical, the us< ful and th< beautiful, that much of the rapidity of development of landscape gardening in its various phases is due. GoinK back to delve in the earli A archives of the Univei ity, one finds that in 1868 a course in landscape g a r d e n i n g is mentioned as part of tin w rk in the Department of Horticulture. In 1869 the Third Annual I ircular of the Illinois Industrial University, announce that the "S Horticulture will include the formation, management and i ire > garden: f 9 hotb . orchards, tree plantations, and ornamental grounds . I: 1-71 there had been mapped out a much more implete i ur» f • idy for the School in Horticulture, and we find for the junior j i term, a cour e in Garden Architecture; third term, "1 and with the illuminating remark that "Ladi< and gentlemen alik< « in the si idies and exerci e of the court In l ti<- e n t i I th«- circular announces that "Eleven \\ k on! ipe gardening", but sin only 21 men v -"I Of A .culture", and 2 men in the hool r. • . I to tl I ll f lloli , it is sat It I ifl B tin. HSIIU thai there was no i >ni il a t l a n I ui rid ' h e n tie II ti< In llv land \ \\\. \ i m in cducat m le b e e n II in a e r a u l t u i v . i R< i i n v till t mi t h e lit d PMI H l p p l y ha C oi tak. ind b « ; rid th I hoi i Icultu I I hi nti in i until alt it inn in 'I I ticlu u i I t nivoi t\ u n\ Wi\\
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