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students registered, the vegetable gardening course was 
continued as before, Mr. Finley being assisted by Mr. 
Walter B. Balch. Late crops were sown, and transplanting 
and general care of gardens taken up. Practical work in 
flower gardening continued, and the garden botany course 
devoted to a study of summer-flowering subjects, parti- 
cularly to the herbaceous flowers and variety studies in the 
special collections of iris, gladiolus and dahlia. One 
afternoon weekly was taken up by a course in plant physi- 
ology, given by Dr. A. B. Stout, Director of the Labor- 
atories, consequent to the course in elementary botany 
given eadlice in the year. Dr. Southwick continued his 
course in garden zoology during a part of this quarter. 
During the autumn quarter, beginning October 6, the 
curriculum as arranged was altered to some extent. The 
students doing the practical work in sections, alternating 
between greenhouse practice at conservatory range I and 
practice in propagating bedding plants, sowing seeds and 
bulbs of floricultural subjects in the propagating houses, 
and fall work outdoors. This took up the mornings and 
Monday and Friday afternoons. Tuesday afternoons for 
this quarter were taken up by garden botany, a short 
course given by me with outlines and references, special 
attention being given to berry-bearing shrubs and trees, 
and the common broad-leaved evergreens. Beginning 
October 15, a course of ten lectures in plant chemistry 
was given on Wednesday afternoons by Dr. William J. 
Gies, Consulting Chemist to the Garden, treating of the 
elements of chemistry as applied to plants and their 
absorption, assimilation and elaboration of plant food. 
During this quarter the Ilustrated Flora of the Northern 
States and Canada, by Dr. N. L. Britton and Judge 
Addison Brown, and the Cyclopaedia of American Horti- 
culture, edited by Dr. L. H. Bailey, were installed in the 
reading room at the Lorillard Mansion, for use in reference 
work along with the periodicals relating to gardening. 
These reference works are now being used with increasing 
