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in different institutions. We have yet at least one living example 

 of such a monstrosity as a professor of agriculture, horticulture and 

 botany, and in a number of colleges, and even in a university, one man 

 has plenty of room to recline at full length on the settee of two such 

 vast subjects as horticulture and forestry. But we are doing better 

 than we used to in this respect, and in recent years the general move- 

 ment for the differentiation and specialization of agricultural sub- 

 jects and instructors has affected and greatly benefited horticultural 

 courses in our colleges. 



Fourteen colleges announce four-year horticultural courses in con- 

 nection with which an effort has been made to systematize instruction 

 in horticulture and co-ordinate the work in this subject with that in 

 other subjects in the curriculum so as to make a more or less satis- 

 factory technical course. 



In addition, several state universities have broad elective courses 

 and offer a sufficient number of courses in various branches of horti- 

 culture to enable the student to arrange quite thorough technical 

 courses and even to specialize to a considerable extent in some horti- 

 cultural line to which he proposes to devote himself as a profession. 



In some of the colleges the course which horticultural students 

 must pursue in seeking a bachelor's degree is prescribed during two or 

 three years and electives are offered in the third and fourth years in 

 such a way as to enable the student to specialize in horticulture at 

 least to a certain extent. 



Short courses in horticulture are offered by 19 colleges. These 

 courses vary in duration from two years to two weeks. 



At the University of Illinois, where the elective system prevails, 

 29 courses are offered under the head of horticulture, besides a some- 

 what elaborate professional course in landscape gardening. Five of 

 these courses are of a general and somewhat elementary character, 19 

 are for advanced undergraduates and graduates, and five are exclu- 

 sively for graduates. 



Among the special courses in this list are those in spraying, viti- 

 culture, nut culture, evolution of horticultural plants, experimental 

 horticulture, amateur floriculture, and landscape design. Two courses 

 in forestry are also included under horticulture. 



The horticultural faculty proper includes one professor, three 

 assistant professors, and one instructor. There is no professor of 

 horticulture, but a professor and an assistant professor of pomology, as- 

 sistant professor of olericulture, assistant professor of landscape gar- 

 dening and an instructor in floriculture. The professor of botany and 

 two field assistants in pomology also take part in the horticultural 

 instruction. 



Cornell University offers 13 courses in horticulture and the hor- 

 ticultural faculty consists of one professor, one assistant professor and 

 two instructors. 



The University of Missouri offers 9 courses, given by one profes- 

 sor, one assistant professor, and two instructors. 



