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LABORATORY AND SHOP PRACTICE. 30 hours. 
Cultivating stick, garden line and knots, plot stake, marking 
board, hand carrier, root and insect cages, fl indow 
box, butterfly net, poison jar, spreading board, map, stencils, 
arfd studies and experiments with student-made apparatus 
Ill. Special or Partial Courses in gardening may be arranged 
if applications are sufficiently numerous. 
IV. Autumn Course. 
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 
September roth to October 26th, from 4 to 5.30 P.M 
fee for this course will be twenty dollars, which will include 
necessary supplies and materials 
LECTURES. 
Seeds, weeds, composting, fertilizers, fall tillage, cover crops. 
Food values. 
GARDEN PRACTICE 
Harvesting of wt of plants and of root crops. Fall 
ing. Compost pits and their contents. 
Fall planting. ae protection for the winte 
LABORATORY, 
Experiments and shop 
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V. Greenhouse Courses will be organized for November and 
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These courses will be described in detail later in the year 
All F 1 lotivra to th hould be addressed 
ENRY GRISCOM PARSONS, 
Supervisor of Gardening Instruction, 
Mansion, New York Botanical Garden, 
vonx Park. 
