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Autumn buds of apples, pears, plums, and cherries. 

 Autumn tints of foliage. 



Tomatoes and peppers, and methods for crossing each of them. 

 The genus Prunus, its botanical and economical status. 

 • Asparagus, its cultivation and botanical characters. 



The Umbelliferee ; what has it contributed to the garden, and how? 

 The genus Fraaaria, its botanical and economical status. 

 Rhubarb, its culture and botanical characters. 

 History of the dahlia and its culture. 



The college is fortunate in the possession of an uuusually line park wliich 

 embraces one hundred acres of undulating and broken surface. Ten profes- 

 sors' residences are arranged along one side of this park, ^vhile the central and 

 rear portions are occupied by the college buildings, souie twenty in number. 

 Opposite the residences, the park is skirted by Red Cedar river, a part of whose 

 banks are high and precipitous, its whole length skirted Avith native trees and 

 bushes. The grounds are laid out under the dominant features of the pictur- 

 esque, and in the auiin the individual objects are arranged wirh excellent taste. 

 The preservation of natural undulations of surface, and of wooded banks and 

 forest trees, with the entirely natural growth of spruces, is especially fortunate. 

 The grounds illustrate all the important principles of picturesque gardening. 

 The selection of ornamental plants is large and instructive. During the lect- 

 ures on landscape gardening, I take the students out of doors and point out to 

 them the salient features of gardening. 1 have also required them to write 

 down and describe those portions of the grounds which, to their minds, best 

 illustrate the principles of apparent increase of extent, foregrounds, variety, 

 simplicity, richness, polish, snugness, seclusion, gradation, appropriat on, 

 adaptation, gaiety, tranquility, sombreness, poverty, etc. I add the following: 



BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF LECTURES ON LANDSO.APK <^\RUENING. 



I. Introduction. General Discussion of the Fine Arts. 



Principles of painting and their, relation to landscape gardening. 



II. Ideal Landscapes. 



1. Xatural landscapes. 

 (I. Imitation of nature. 

 b. Interpretation of nature 



The Picturesque and the Beautiful, com])rising discussions of 

 unity, harmony, variety, simplicity, contrast, appearance of 

 extent, foregrounds, gradation, connexion, snugness, seclusion, 

 adaptation, appropriation, richness, polish, gaiety, quietness, 

 sombreness, poverty. 

 'i. Artificial landscapes. -, 



ill. Applied Landscape Gardening. 



1 . Parks and paddocks. 



'I. Cemeteries. 



3. Highways, avenues, etc. 



'6. Homes and private grounds, including discussions of sites, conven- 

 ience, economy, walks and drives, lawns, windbreaks, trees, shrubs 

 and flowers. 



