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Juse 22, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE 
2. Landscape Gardening. The subject is se 
as a fine art, and illustr trated 
3. Pomology. Winter term. Lectures and other 
class work. M., W., F., 10. Professor Bailey and 
Mr. Lodem 
4. Olericulture, or oe Gardening. Spring 
term. Lectures and other class works. . 
boratory 
k in the Winter term. One 
hour per week by appointment. Mr. Lodeman. 
. Handicraft. Practical training for students 
who intend to follow horticulture as a business, An 
on of either course 3 or 4, or both. By 
appointment. Mr, Lodeman 
7. Investigation 2 to previous courses. 
graduates and advanced students. By anamsan 
Professor Bailey, 
Instruction in horticulture is given at Cornell, as 
will be seen from the foregoing syllabus, in seven 
Course 7 aff 
graduates who desire to for 
t station work and for teaching. Ia this 
course, all subjects and hours are especially 
for each student; and practice is also given in the 
prise upwards of 60 
varieties of Grapes, over 50 of Apples, 50 of Plums, 
and other fruits in proportion. Pear 
orchard of 300 trees, 
orchards, remainder of the 
excepting such as is set aside 
ing. There is a collection of 150 varieties of 
and various 
opportunities 
for nursery practice for the study of the forcing of 
all kinds of vegetables, and for some kinds of flori- 
peratio 
complete the museum collection. The library 
and collection of 
1 There are here to 
de found over file 
from all parts of the world. 
Mr. Craigie, whilst not shutting his eyes to 
imperfections, inclines to the belief that a hope- 
has been made made, and that it is ande- 
nrahia that good 
3 which is being turned on agricultural 
tural 
special enquiries of the Federal Department at 
Washington has taken place in the last ten years, 
“The American Government seems willing to 
face any cost to the community that promises 
the better to equip the farmer and horticul- 
turist with a knowledge of his business. The 
authorities seem assured aa in indicating 
methods of profitable production, and still more 
by the careful perfecting of the produce of the 
vast lands of the Republic, in whatever direo- 
tions of extensive or of intensive culture the 
economic circumstances of the moment may 
prescribe, they are providing a solid means of 
advancing the wellbeing of the nation as a whole.” 
Perhaps some day we may see things in the 
same light, 
FRUIT T NOTES. 
EARLY STRAWBERRIES. 
Ar p. — of the Gardeners’ Chronicle 3 the early 
gathering and marketing of Str. m Corn- 
wall are commented upon, arera to inform 
phen aed Te Noble were . 
the gardens at Mereworth Castle, 
. 28, the sie being truly noble in size poe) 
appearance, In fact, I know of no other kind that 
can equal this . — in these res 
respects, ite chief 
as my experience ng lack of 
flavour. This season, however, the flavour is or 
derably better than usual, an im 
mprovement that ma 
be due to the large amount of bricht sunshine 
being very moist, It is only for affording some 
dishes of early out-door grown fruit 
is cultivated here, and 
be pegged on to 
3-inch pots of soil, planted as soon as the run- 
are established, selecting for the bed a 
are in the centre position; and 
f 
low-span aux houses, i all 
conservatory, and in this way it is always gay and 
interesting. It ie rather a well house in all 
„ 
passages, and there is abundant room for prome- 
At 
plants that line the front | iron 
The park iteelf is prettily laid out, with a lake 
the borders 
and are bulking into e the white 
Abele Poplar does well. There is nothing to 
beat the Spindle tree, which can stand the severe 
frost with impunity, Even the gales here ha 
of shelter about them, ng well, 
and Escallonias, which grow and revel in 
climate, had suffered partially from the gales; but 
er wartoth returns, 
The park is diversified in contour; in 
them b 
end ao do ume of those — sal 
