98 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



instructed and given reading in forestry, elementary botany, landscape 

 gardening, and tlae rudiments of surveying and draining, and will be re- 

 quired to take charge of clipping or indexing some department of the 

 current gardening papers for the benefit of all. 



In the fourth year, besides the customary work, they will study the 

 botany of weeds, garden vegetables, and fruits, in addition to assisting in 

 the necessary indexing or clipping of papers, etc., and will be taught 

 simple book-keeping, and the legal forms for leases, deeds, etc. 



The course for the fifth year, in addition to the customary work, will 

 include the study of vegetable physiology, economic entomology, and 

 fungi, especially those which cause diseases of cultivated plants; and 

 each pupil will be expected to keep a simple set of accounts pertaining 

 to some department of the Garden. 



In the sixth year, in addition to the manual work, pupils will study 

 the botany of garden and green-house plants, of ferns, and of trees in 

 their winter condition, besides the theoretical part of special garden- 

 ing, connected with some branch of the work that they are charged with 

 in the Garden. 



From time to time, changes in this course will be made, as they shall 

 appear to be desirable, and the effort will be made to give the best theo- 

 retical instruction possible in the various subjects prescribed; but it is 

 not intended to make botanists or other scientific specialists of garden 

 pupils, but, on the contrary, practical gardeners. 



Applications for scholarships, and any inquiries regarding them, are 

 to be addressed as below, on or before the dates mentioned above. If 

 requested, blanks will be mailed to persons who contemplate making 

 application. 



William Trelease, 

 Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 



St. Louis, Mo. 



The intimate relations established by Mr. Shaw between 

 the Garden and the School of Botany, when the latter was 

 created, have been recognized and strengthened by the 

 action of the Directors of Washington University, who have 

 granted free tuition in this department to garden pupils who 

 may bo given scholarships ; and by the action of the 

 Trustees of the Garden in authorizing the Director, under 

 certain restrictions, to detail persons in the employ of the 

 garden to give assistance in the School of Botany, and to 

 supply from the garden, material needed for purposes of 

 instruction and study in the school. The following general 

 statement concerning the School of Botany, is extracted 

 from the latest catalogue of Washington University: — 



