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Plant Materials of Landscape Gardening, a more advanced course, 

 having as a prerequisite Course 86. A new course (Rural Art 90), 

 entitled Introductory Lectures to Work in Rural Art, has been in- 

 cluded. It is to be given in the second half year, a one-hour cours**, 

 open to freshmen. Its purpose is to start the future Rural Art 

 student right and to help others, who may wish to take it to gain 

 a brief understanding of the subject. Still another new course has 

 been added (Rural Art 91), entitled Rural Improvement, and will 

 be offered for the first time this year, as a regular course open to 

 the students in general, but intended more particularly for the 

 Winter-Course students. We announce it as a course of six lec- 

 tures, without University credit, beginning after the Christmas 

 recess, and dealing with questions of rural improvement, such a^ 

 will enable the farm boy to get a point of view in rural art together 

 with specific hints for working out some of the simpler home prob- 

 lem's. The need of this course has been proved by the work given 

 last year to the Winter-Course men, and from now on it will be 

 made a permanent feature of the instruction given them, providing 

 they wish to elect it. 



A trip of inspection was taken last Spring for the purpose of 

 studying good examples of landscape work, either completed or in 

 process of construction. This trip, taken by practically. all of the 

 students included visits to Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, 

 and all of the more important shops between the latter city and 

 New York. Careful study was made of the park systems in the 

 various cities visited, and of the many fine private estates. The 

 students took notes and observations on what they saw. The trip 

 proved so interesting and valuable to the students that we have 

 included in this year's announcement as a requisite, that visits be 

 made as follows: 1909 and 191 1 Albany to New York, Hudson 

 River Section; 1910 and 1912 Vicinity of Philadelphia and Wash- 

 ington. These trips are to be taken at the end of the second term. 



II. EXTENSION. 



There is room for considerable extension work in this Depart- 

 ment, particularly in creating better surroundings about our public 

 and rural schools, and about the homes in the rural communities. 

 In our public work care nuist be taken not to interefere with the 

 practice of profession by those outside the University; but in 

 helping to improve the rural districts we are quite within our 

 province, and can really do a great work. During the last year 



