60 



Laboratory and Shop Practice. 30 hours. 



Cultivating stick, garden line and knots, plot stake, marking 

 board, hand carrier, root and insect cages, flat or window 

 box, butterfly net, poison jar, spreading board, map, stencils, 

 and studies and experiments with student-made apparatus. 



III. Special or Partial Courses in gardening may be arranged 



if applications are sufficiently numerous. 



IV. Autumn Course. 



Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 

 September 10th to October 26th, from 4 to 5.30 P.M. The 

 * 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 seeds, of plants and of root crops. Fall 

 fertilizing and spading. Compost pits and their contents. 

 Fall planting. Plant protection for the winter. 



Laboratory. 



Experiments and shop work. 



V. Greenhouse Courses w r ill be organized for November and 



December, 191 7. and for January and February, 1918, to 

 include lectures, greenhouse bench work, propagating, 

 potting, seed testing, hot-bed and mold-frame practice. 



All correspondence relative to these courses should be addressed 

 to 



Henry Griscom Parsons, 



Supervisor of Gardening Instruction, 



Mansion, New York Botanical Garden, 



Bronx Park. 



