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recommendations. 



In regard to recommendations, what has just been said in the above 

 paragraph had best be first considered. We need httle or no change in 

 courses or, in fact, in the extension of our teaching, but instead we 

 should have sufficient money to estabhsh and maintain a thorough exten- 

 sion department. Such a department or head would call for an annual 

 expenditure of at least two thousand dollars for salary, in addition to at 

 least two or three thousand dollars with which to carry on his work. We 

 have been rather careful in publishing the fact that we were ready to 

 accept queries for solution or to do much external teaching, fearing to 

 be given far more than we have either opportunity or money to handle. 



The second greatest need is for larger office quarters and equipment. 



TRIPS OF INSPECTION. 



What might have been included under the head of either teaching or 

 investigation may be mentioned here — the introduction of trips of 

 inspection, occupying four or five days, taken during the spring for the 

 purpose of studying good examples of landscape work, either now com- 

 plete or in the process of construction. Two years ago this method of 

 investigation by students in the department was inaugurated and a trip 

 was taken through the Hudson River valley, where a number of examples 

 of landscape and rural art work were shown. During the spring of 1910, 

 a trip of inspection, which proved of inestimable value to the students, 

 was taken to Boston and vicinity, where a careful study was made not 

 only of the larger and more interesting pieces of private landscape work, 

 but of the Boston Metropolitan Park system. It is our intention to 

 continue these annual trips of inspection from year to year, the coming 

 year's trip to be to Philadelphia, Washington, and vicinity, where some 

 of the examples of earlier landscape work will be studied. 



EQUIPMENT. 



As to equipment, there is little to say, for the major requirements 

 have been fairly well met. The allowance during the past year has been 

 spent largely for current expenses, cataloging, additional lantern slides, 

 and stenographic work, and the same will be largely true the coming 

 year. The main effort was and will be again the coming year to assemble 

 a good collection of photographs illustrating the masterpieces o-f land- 

 scape design, together with some of the more modern work. 



BRYANT FLEMING, 

 Aswtaiit Professor of Rural Art, 

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