84 



iiiuoh as the agrii-iilturists. In fact, it s^eiiis the time has come \A-hen the pro- 

 fessor of agriculture has no ])articular monoitiily upon the agricultural course 

 any more than the professor of horticulture, or iiny more than the professor 

 of animal industry or dairying, or many of the other lines. The professor of 

 horticulture is interested in giving hoi'ticulture earlier than the senior year. 

 It often happens that in many of our institutions men graduating in agriculture 

 are prepared and do go out, after their general agricultural course, as pro- 

 fessors of horticulture, and they are fairly well jirepared for that work. 

 Therefore the conmiittee as a whole woidd recommend that the horticulture 

 hegin earlier in the course, and thus give the men an opportunity to specialize, 

 if they want to. in the senior year. In order to do this it is necessary to put 

 the botany earlier in the course (see p. 88). 



A COURSE IN HORTICULTURE. 



The programme connuittee of this section asked me also to outline an ideal 

 course in horticulture. I conferred witli the various memliers of the com- 

 mittee, and we have gotten together a course which is l)ased entirely upon the 

 "agricultural course" before given. The idea is to give a course in horticul- 

 ture exactly parallel to that in agriculture, except that a man starts out in the 

 freshman year with the idea of finishing a four-year course in horticulture. 

 This course includes, as will be shown by comparison, all of th(> i)rincipal fun- 

 damental subjects found in the other course, but arranged to suit horticulture. 



Horticultural course in collecie. 



[The number of hours assigned to each subject includes laboratory exercises. The commit- 

 tee presupposes that lectures, recitations, and laboratory exercises will receive their due ap- 

 portionment in all the science courses.] 



Classification of studies. 



Nature of subjects. 



Culture 



Pure science 



Applied science (required) 

 Applied science (elective) . 



Total . 



Fresh- Sopho- j^^io™ Seniors Entire 

 men. mores. '^^"^°^^- ''®°^°^''- 1 course. 



Hours. 

 300 

 395 

 60 



Hours. 



240 

 390 

 120 



Hours. 

 120 



270 

 360 



Hours. 

 230 



755 



750 



750 



375 

 175 



780 



Hours. 



890 



1,055 



915 



175 



