100 MISSOURL BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Economic Garden.—The study and culture, on a small 
seale, of farm crops, bee plants, herbs, trained fruits, vines, 
ornamental grasses, hedge plants. Model backyard gardens. 
Wild-flower Garden.—Comprehensive study and general 
eulture of herbaceous material native to North America. 
Floral Display—Planting and planning of formal and in- 
formal beds, and the use of various plants and bulbs for sue- 
cession of spring and summer displays, including work in the 
Italian garden, iris garden, perennial garden, main garden, 
test garden, and knolls. 
Water Gardens.—Propagation, study, and culture of hardy 
and tropical aquatic plants. Winter and summer treatment 
of tropical water lilies. 
Lawns and Shrubbery.—Preparation of soil for lawns, 
sodding, mowing, watering, weed eradication. Testing grasses 
for lawns. The use of hand and power mowers. Fertilizers. 
General cultivation of shrubs; spring and fall pruning; dif- 
ferentiation between flowering and non-flowering wood. Study 
of twigs and fruits with special reference to winter effects. 
CONSERVATORIES 
Cultivation, growing, potting; types of soil; insect control ; 
irrigation of : 
1. Cyeads, ferns, palms, economic plants, succulents. 
2. Orchids. 
3. Citrus plants, arcids, and bromeliads. 
4. Chrysanthemums, cyclamen, cinerarias, calceolarias, 
ete., for floral display.—Forcing bulbs. 
5. Foreed fruits —General methods of forcing indoor 
grapes, peaches, nectarines, cherries, ete.; training, pruning, 
thinning, and fertilizing. 
6. Floral display.—Design and arrangement of indoor 
floral exhibits. Care of plants on exhibition. 
7. Propagation.—Seed testing, seed sowing, transplanting, 
ete., of annuals, biennials, and perennials; making softwood 
cuttings and propagation of general outside bedding plants. 
Study of propagation, including various rooting media and 
temperature and moisture requirements. Methods of propaga- 
tion, by cuttings, alr-layering, inarching, stem division, leaf 
cuttings; bulb propagation. 
