34 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



The 77 class exercises per week here tabulated (each ex- 

 tending over three months), may be grouped under sub- 

 jects as follows: — 



Gardening: 



Floriculture 8 



Vegetable gardening 3 



Fruit culture 8 



Forestry 3 



Landscape gardening 3 



Selected thesis work 4 29 



Surveying and drainage 6 



Bookkeeping and accounts 4 



Economic entomology 6 



Botany in its relation to gardening: 



General botany 8 



Botany of decorative plants 5 



Botany of hardy woody plants 3 



Botany of fruits 2 



Botany of vegetables 1 



Botany of weeds . . " 1 



Botanical geography 1 



Economic mycology 7 



Vegetable physiology 4 32 77 



All of the above subjects capable of being taught in the 

 laboratory, the greenhouse, or the field, arc so taught; and all 

 of the theoretical instruction is expected to be practically 

 tested in the performance of the manual work required of 

 students. 



By action of the Corporation of Washington University, 

 the classes of the School of Botany are opened to garden 

 pupils, who are also granted free instruction in entomology 

 at the University; and by special permission they have been 

 admitted occasionally to other college classes. Though they 

 show as great differences in preparation, ability, and studious- 

 ness as other young people, the garden pupils in the main have 

 been of excellent character, and, though a high-school educa- 

 tion is not expected of them, a number have come to the 

 Garden with such preliminary qualification, and as a rule they 

 have stood well up in such college classes as they have entered, 



