HORTICULTURE I -PLANT PROPAGATION 



Required Text : Bailey's "Nursery Book" 

 AUGUST -DECEMBER, 1912 



PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE 



LECTURES 



AND RECITATIONS 



Enrollment. 1 



Recitation, Seedage; 2 



pp. 1-25. 



Aug. 27. Lecture. 3 



Aug. 20. 

 Aug. 22. 



Aug. 29. 



Sept. 3. 



Sept. 5. 



Sept. 10. 



Sept. 12. 



Sept. 17. 



Sept. 19. 



Sept. 24. 



Sept. 26. 

 Oct. 1. 



Eecitation, Separation and 4. 



Division, pp. 26-34. 

 Lecture. (Report choice 5. 



of herb for individual 



work.) 

 Recitation, Layerage; Cut- 6. 



tage; pp. 35-43; 53-58. 

 Lecture. Oral quiz on 7. 



practice work. 

 Recitation, Cuttage; pp. 8. 



42-72. (Preliminary herb 



report.) 

 Lecture. 9. 



Recitation, Budding; 10. 



pp. 94-107. 

 Review. (Report choice 11. 



of shrub for individual 



work.) 



Midterm examination. 12. 



Lecture. (Report choice 13. 



of tree for individual 



work.}. 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES 



Seed testing. 



Seed testing. Sow tree seeds. 



Sow annual and perennial herb 



and fern spores. 

 Bulbs and corms. Pot off rose j 



and rooted willow cuttings. 

 Tubers and rootstocks. Pot off i 



geranium and fuschia cutting 



Layerage demonstrations. 



Individual work. 

 Layerage. Prick out seedlings. 



Soft wood cuttings. 

 Leaf cuttings. 



Prick out fern plants and seedlii 



Note Books. 

 Practice budding. Bud rose am 



low in house. 

 Bud roses and apricots in nursei 



Transplant seedlings. 



Individual work. 



Bud walnuts in nursery. 



Transplant ferns and seedling 



