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Farm Botany. — ^Four hours a week. Two lectures and 

 two laboratory periods. 



Fertility of tJie land. — Two hours. 



There are thus fifteen hours a week of required work 

 in this course. Students may elect, with permission of 

 the instructor concerned, three hours a week additional 

 by taking the following courses : — - 



ELECTIVE SUBJECTS 



Economic entomology. — -One hour a week. 



Plant diseases. — ^Three hours. One hour lecture and 

 two hours' laboratory practice. 



Horticultural readi^ig. — -Assignment of topics for abstracts 

 and reports in standard works and current periodicals. 

 One to three hours by appointment. 



Floriculture and ornamental gardening. — Lectures and 

 exercises on the growing and marketing of greenhouse 

 crops, and the principles of lawn decoration. Two hours 

 a week. 



Greenhouse practice. — -In this course the student is 

 assigned specific pieces of work in the greenhouse to be 

 performed under the direction of the gardener. One hou*' 

 a week. 



EQUIPMENT 



Practically the same facilities are available to the 

 winter course students as are offered the student in the 

 regular course : — ^The library, one of the best in the country ; 

 the material equipment of the forcing-houses, including 

 plants, work rooms, spray pumps and implements, are all 

 used in conducting the work of instruction. 



