SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 29 
more valuable horticultural and agricultural papers, and also with a 
small but standard collection of books on the same subjects, which the 
pupils have free use of. So far as possible, the surroundings of pupils 
are made homelike, and without assuming any responsibility for their 
behaviour, an effort is made to subject them to influences calculated to 
insure for them gentlemanly manners and habits of industry and investi- 
gation. 
During the first year of their scholarship, garden pupils will work at 
the practical duties of the Garden nine or ten hours daily, according to 
the season, the same as regular employees of the Garden, and will also 
be expected to read the notes and articles referring to the subject of 
their work in one or more good journals. 
In the second year, in addition to five hours’ daily work of the same 
sort, they will be given instruction and will be required to do thorough 
reading in vegetable gardening, flower gardening, small-fruit culture, and 
orchard culture, besides keeping the run of the current papers. 
In the third year, in addition to five hours of daily labor, they will be 
instructed and given reading in forestry, elementary botany, landscape 
gardening, and the 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 gardening, con- 
nected 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 
theoretical instruction possible in the various subjects prescribed; but 
itis 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 ap- 
plication. 
WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
