DEPARTMENT EEPORTS. 101 



A written examination follows the completion of each study, and those students 

 are recoi'ded j)assed in t]iat study whose examination marks equal 7, while their 

 regular average exceeds 5 ; or those, the sum of whose regular and examination 

 marks equals or exceeds 13. Students present at less than four-fifths of the 

 class exercises in any study are required to pass a special and more extensive 

 examination, Avith a standing at least 7. 



QUESTIONS IN HORTICULTURE FOR 187G. 



Time for writing answers one hour and a half. 



1. What is a good location for a garden? 



2. How would yoii treat very light soil. 



3.' Difficulties in keeping manure after you get it. 



4. How to manage a compost heap of horse manure Avhere a litter of straw has 

 been used. 



5. How to apply line manure ; how to apply coarse manure. 

 G. What is green manuring!-' Wlien used and how? 



7. AVhen and how to use the roller. 



8. How to mark out straight rows, and the advantages in having them 

 straight. 



9. Construction of sash, etc., for hot beds. 



10. Management of hot beds when made. 



11. How to raise good tomato plants for the early cro]). 

 13. Name six tender vegetables sensitive to frost. 



13. How to make a nice bed of asparagus for family use. 



14. What is a good yield of watermelons and the ordinary profits with good 

 culture ? 



15. What is the objection to planting an apple orchard with a thick growth 

 of timber to the southwest? 



IG. How can you best raise early tomatoes. 



QUESTIONS IN BOTANY. 



First examination after studvinjy twelve weeks. 



1. Explain neutral, staminate, pistillate, monoecious, dioecious, naked. 



2. Name the chief deviations from the pattern flower and give an example of 

 each. 



3. Explain cohesion, adhesion, and give examples. 



4. Explain hypogynous, perigynous, epigynous. 



5. AVhat is a papilionaceous flower? Give example. 

 G. What is a coma, a pappus? Give examples. 



G, How does a stamen answer to a leaf ; also the morphology]^of an anther 

 which may be adnato, innate, versatile, or kidney shaped? 



8. What names are used to describe the union of sepals, of petals, of stamens, 

 with examples of each ? 



9. What are the leading kinds of aestivation — examples of each? 



10. What are the leading kinds of compound pistils? 



11. AVhat is an achenium? a kernel of corn? 



12. Describe by word or drawing a seed compylotropous and give two exam- 

 ples. 



13. Describe by illustration the different kinds of dehiscence. 



14. What is the morphology of a blackberry, a strawberry, and the difference 

 between them? 



