:26o TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



Horticulture: W. C. Flagg, O. B. Galusha, A. M. Brown, Samuel 

 Edwards, M. L. Dunlap, Burden PuUcn, and others; and in the first 

 report ever made to this Board of Trustees upon departments and studies 

 in the University-, Horticulture, and horticultural . science were recom- 

 mended as a part of the practical education of students in the University. 



See pp. 50, 51, first Annual Report of Board of Trustees. 



Of the 980 acres belonging to the University, 135 acres, lying near 

 the Universit}'^ buildings, have been set apart for horticultural purposes. 

 *In addition to this the forest-tree plantation is designed to cover 80 acres 

 of the main farm. During the summer of 1867 nothing was attempted, 

 save the grading and fencing of the college grounds. In November, 

 J 867, at a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Samuel Edwards, O. B. 

 Galusha, and C. H. Topping, from the Horticultural Committee, recom- 

 mended a survey and mapping of the grounds, and in the following 

 spring the planting of screens upon the west and nortli sides of the entire 

 •farming lands and trees upon the University grounds. This was adopted 

 by the trustees, and the work was accordingly done. 



By authority granted at this meeting of the Board (Nov. 36, 1867,) 

 Jonathan Periam was chosen Head Farmer, and in January, 1868, 

 assumed charge of the whole University lands, there being at the time 

 no division between agricultui"al and horticultural domains. But he 

 found the previous tillage had been so bad, and the ground so tramped 

 and subject to still further inroads of stock, owing to bad fences, that 

 ■^little, comparatively, was done during the summer of 1868. (See his 

 report p. 43 Second Annual Report of Trustees.) Still considerable 

 work was done in setting out hedges, trees, etc., and testing a large 

 variety of vegetables, under the direction of Mr. Periam, and in laying 

 out and planting the ornamental grounds, under the supervision of the 

 regent. Mr. Thomas Franks was employed as gardener, and entered 

 upon his duties in June, 186S. This position he still retains. Dr. 

 Warder, of Ohio, was elected Lecturer upon Vegetable Physiology and 

 Fruit-Growing, March 11, 1868; but his first lecture was given January 

 12, 1869. 



In Septembei", i868, W. F. Bliss entered upon his duties as Professor 

 of Agriculture, having also temporary charge of the Horticulture. 

 During this month, by order of the Executive Committee, a propagating 

 house was built, which furnished a fine show of bedding and other 

 plants upon the grounds the following summer. This committee also 

 ordered the tile drainage of the forty-acre plat designed for horticultural 

 uses, and after a careful topographical survey by Prof Shattuck, the 

 work was commenced. It has been prosecuted since, in spring and fall, 

 as opportunity offered, and is now about half completed. This work 

 has been done entirely by the students, under proper instruction. The 

 drains are three to four feet deep, fort}' feet apait. 



At a called meeting of the Board of Trustees, Nov. 18, 186S, the 

 Committee on Horticulture made the following report, which was 

 ■adopted, and the Legislature subsequently appropriated $20,000 of the 

 amount asked for: 



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