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and arboretum, and the whole area is intersected by miles of 
walks and drives. The grounds alone offer an object lesson in all 
details of outdoor gardening and provide actual experience for the 
students in maintaining, developing and managing them. 
In the Garden are two extensive ranges of greenhouses, one of 
which is the largest glasshouse in America. There is also a range 
of propagating houses with ground adjacent for experimental 
and practice gardens. Also within Bronx Park are the extensive 
glasshouses of the Park Department, in which students may ob- 
serve the propagation of plants on a large scale. With these un- 
rivalled facilities, the students in gardening have the best possible 
opportunity to learn by actual practice all details of greenhouse 
work. There students may become familiar with many thousand 
different kinds of plants and their cultivation. 
The Botanical Garden also has at the disposal of the students 
an extensive library of horticultural books and laboratories and 
equipment for class work indoors. 
MetuHops oF INSTRUCTION 
The instruction is given by the staff of the Botanical Garden 
and officers of other institutions, insuring that the students will 
be at all times under the direction of highly trained specialists. 
The work is of three kinds. Under the supervision of the Head 
Gardener and his foremen, the students spend about one half of 
their time in actual practical work, including the subjects outlined 
in the curriculum. On one or two days each week members of 
the Garden staff or other specialists present lectures or demon- 
strations on subjects of interest to gardeners and on which all 
gardeners should be informed. The remainder of the time is spent 
in class work, and the students learn from lectures and laboratory 
study the fundamental principles of the sciences upon which suc- 
cessful gardening is based. Students who complete the course 
not only know what to do and how to do it, but they also under- 
stand the reason for all garden operations. In other words, they 
are not garden laborers, but trained gardeners. 
