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but in 1895 things were looking up. and a com •• <-a!I> : "(ianieng" announced in this fashion: "Kitchen and marl t gardens an first subjects of study after which ornamental and lai gard 1 occupies the time." The "School of Horticulture! had by tl time \

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a department of the College of Agriculture, and one n. tru r v i\ i•„. tire stall". Indeed, it was not until L904 thai th< exigoneie oi the Ca seemed to demand a special instructor to leach landscape ml.-ning. If was designated as Assistant Professor of Landsca] Gardening, one undergraduate course being offered dealing with "ornamental and land -ape gardening with special reference to the beautifying of homo Irrounding The following year saw a course in Landscape Design added, and the graduate course known as Landscape Horticulture was place i in the undergraduate list. That year (1905-1906) then, marks the departure of landscape gardening from the Graduate School, and it has never h n re-. blished there. It also marks the first leaning toward a ; :al and welldefined professional course. Two years later (1907-1908), five new courses w • re add . making eight in all, and the professional course in landscape gardening, leading to the degree of B.S., was offered, the Head of the Department of Horticul ture and the Assistant Professor in Landscape Gardening being the only instructors. The course is described in the annual r gist r for the year, follows: "The artistic instruction of the course consists of w rk in composition throughout the four years, two years being given to architectural design and the rest to landscape design. This is supplemented by another almost continuous cour in freehand drawing and the use of water-colors. Technique, or tin means of execution of art ideas, is provided: first, by some acquaintance with engineering methods, such as surveying, road instruction, grading, and wall building; and, second, by horticulture, where a familiarity with plants and their propagation culture, and care are emphasized, together with such practice as will enable a student to make a planting plan. These are accompani 1 by their allied sciences and by such general subjects as modern language, rhetoric, and history". The irranged The pointed. requirements of the courses wore made loss stringent so that some were available to first-year students * next year a new Instructor in Landscape Cardeninjr After this tin; landscape work was regarded • • * ^ ^ *

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lownfl. We had but one instructor teaching ten courses in 1 * I ^ ^^ Hnd8ca )0 lening for the years intervening, until L912. The follm.,; l «*"' "owing year saw an