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young foliage and eats its way into the 4 grass ' (young leaf-shoots 

 at the base of the plants), and any indication of curling or decay 

 should lead to immediate examination. The grub ultimately 

 turns to a small brown chrysalis about a quarter of an inch long. 

 The only remedy is frequently and closely searching, examining, 

 and hand-picking." 



University Horticultural Education. — Professor Emory E. 

 Smith gave an interesting account of the new Horticultural 

 Department of the Leland Stanford Jr. University of California. 

 He stated that this great University, which opened the 1st of 

 last October, was located about thirty miles from San Francisco, 

 in the heart of one of the largest fruit districts in the world, 

 and had a first endowment of over £4,000,000. The endow- 

 ment being ample, no fees are necessary, the education being 

 practically free, students only having to arrange for board, books, 

 and clothes. Belonging to the University there are about 

 40,000 acres of rich land, about 1,100 of which are already in 

 bearing as vineyards, a considerable tract being orchard land. 

 Immediately surrounding the University buildings there are 

 8,000 acres of rich land. Upon this is already located one of the 

 finest stock-breeding farms in America. Something like 1,000 

 acres of this tract will be planted as orchard, and about 100 

 acres will be used for illustrative horticultural work of various 

 kinds ; 250 acres will be devoted to landscape gardening, and 

 about 100 acres to botanical purposes. This is the first 

 University in the world to elevate horticultural education to its 

 true place of dignity among the arts and sciences, by making it 

 one of the leading features of the institution. It will be noted 

 that in this case horticulture has been severed from agriculture, 

 and has been made entirely independent of other departments. 

 Regular students from any part of the world, of sixteen years of 

 age or over, can enter the University by passing a satisfactory 

 examination. There is also a provision for the entry of special 

 students of any age or degree of proficiency, without any fee or 

 examination, but simply upon the recommendation of the pro- 

 fessor in charge of the department in which he desires to work. 



The one idea held in view by the Department of Horticulture 

 is to harmonise and teach simultaneously the practice and theory 

 of horticulture, and to make the subject so attractive that many 

 will seek this class of education, and follow horticultural indus- 



