94 JAMESTOWN CONGRESS OF HORTICULTURE 



Michigan Agricultural Colleges offer 17 courses (two of which 

 are especially for women), given by one professor and four instructors. 



Massachusetts Agricultural College offers 9 courses, given by one 

 professor and three instructors, and is making special effort to develop 

 work in landscape gardening. 



The University of California, with a horticultural faculty of two 

 professors, two assistant professors, and one instructor, offers 8 

 courses, two of which are for graduate students. 



The University of Ohio and the Texas Agricultural College, with 

 one professor and one assistant professor, each offer 13 courses in 

 horticulture. 



While there are certain advantages, as regards the higher lines of 

 work in the organization of horticultural courses in connection with 

 colleges and universities, the instruction in such institutions will inevit- 

 ably be largely of a theoretical and severely technical character. It 

 should, therefore, be supplemented by the establishment of special 

 horticultural schools in which young men and women may be trained 

 for the practical business of horticulture. Some attempts have been 

 made to do this in this country, but we have not as yet any horticul- 

 tural schools of this character which will compare with those at 

 Ghent and Vilvorde in Belgium, or the National School of Horticul- 

 ture at Versailles, France. 



The station horticulturists are doing a large amount of useful 

 work and they enjoy in large measure the confidence and esteem of 

 practical horticulturists. With the increase of the resources of the 

 stations they are getting better facilities for work, and are enabled to 

 specialize .more and to undertake more substantial enterprises. They 

 are now giving more attention to problems connected with a broader 

 organization of their work and with the conduct of more fundamental 

 investigations. On the one hand they desire to cover more completely 

 the field of horticulture and on the other to establish the practice of 

 horticulture more securely on a rational and scientific basis. To accom- 

 plish the first of these objects, the necessity for more workers and 

 increased specialization is apparent. To attain the second there will 

 be required the multiplication of more thorough investigations and the 

 acquirement more largely of the scientific spirit and attitude. 



Besides the special studies made by individual workers, there 

 should be a broad inquiry, preferably by some organization of horti- 

 culturists, with a view to determining in a general way the scope and 

 limitations of scientific horticultural work. In other words there 

 should be an organized effort to define and establish a science of horti- 

 culture, differentiated from, but indissolubly linked with the practice of 

 horticulture. This is all the more important because the great body of 

 practical horticulturists embraces more intelligent and progressive men 

 than any other great group of workers in the general field of agricul- 

 ture. I have lately heard of one of our leading scientific horticultur- 

 ists expressing his difficulty in keeping pace with the professional ad- 

 vancement of practical horticulturists and doubting whether there were 

 any subjects to be discussed among scientific horticulturists which 



