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landscape architect, he should cultivate his creative esthetic faculties 

 at least as thoroughly and by much the same means of art schools, 

 museums, reading, converse with artists, travel and observation and by 

 the solution of many problems of artistic design. 



HORTICULTURAL SCHOOLS AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 

 DR. A. C. TRUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



In the United States education and research in horticulture are 

 mainly carried on in connection with the state agricultural colleges 

 and experiment stations and the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. Some horticultural work is done by all of the sixty experi- 

 ment stations in the continental United States and in Alaska, Hawaii, 

 and Porto Rico, except in the State of Wyoming, whose station is 

 located more than 7,000 feet above sea level and has thus far under 

 taken work in only a few restricted lines of plant production. As 

 reported to the Office of Experiment Stations for 1906 the stations 

 employed 101 horticulturists. The station work in horticulture covers 

 a very wide range. It includes all branches of horticulture and a 

 great variety of horticultural plants, both in the greenhouse and in 

 the field. It ranges from an attempt to select and develop plants suited 

 to arctic conditions, as in part of Alaska, to experiments with man- 

 goes, cacao, coffee, and numerous other tropical plants, as in Hawaii 

 and Porto Rico. Practically all kinds of horticultural plants suited to 

 temperate and semi-tropical conditions are receiving some attention. 

 As regards its character, the work varies from scientific research of a 

 high order on fundamental problems, for the determination of general 

 principles or underlying causes, to the simplest practical tests of varie- 

 ties and cultural methods. In addition, our stations are doing a con- 

 siderable amount of work in chemistry, botany, vegetable pathology, 

 and entomology directly relating to horticulture. 



All but seven of the- stations are organized as departments of the 

 agricultural colleges and are thus brought into close relations with, 

 and in fact are usually in organic union with, the horticultural depart- 

 ments of instruction in these colleges. 



The methods and results of station horticultural work are there- 

 fore easily and naturally brought to the attention of students of hor- 

 ticulture in these institutions, and many of these students have some 

 participation in the station work. The progress of agricultural research 

 in horticulture in foreign countries, as well as in the United States, is 

 systematically reported every month to our horticultural investigators, 

 teachers and students through the Experiment Station Record so that 

 on its information side at least there is little excuse if instruction in 

 horticulture in this country does not keep pace with the progress of 

 horticultural research throughout the world. 



Practically all the agricultural colleges give some instruction in 

 horticulture. The extent and scope of this instruction varies greatly 



