SCIENCE DEGREES IN HORTICULTURE. 
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the University or under recognized teachers for at least three years, and 
has satisfied in other respects the General Regulations as to Approved 
Courses of Study (pp. 6-14). 
Students will be required to have attended approved instruction- 
courses in each of the three following obligatory subjects : — 
Botany. 
Chemistry. 
Entomology. 
These subjects will be treated in relation to the Science of 
Horticulture. Candidates will be required to obtain a knowledge 
of the practical as well as the scientific side of Horticulture. 
Students will further be required to have attended courses in 
Meteorological Instruments and their use, Practical Surveying and 
Mensuration, and in Garden Management (including the uses and care 
of garden implements) and Garden Economics. 
Although the study of French and German is not included in the 
Final Course of Study, questions will be set at the Final Examina- 
tion involving (1) the translation of passages in French and in German 
and (2) answers with regard to the subject-matter thereof.* 
The Syllabuses are as follows ;< — 
Botany. 
First Year. 
Course A .■ — Special morphology relating to the methods of training 
and pruning of fruit and other trees and to methods of propagating 
plants. Descriptive morphology of plants and fruits in general cultiva- 
tion. Seeds and seed-adulteration. General anatomy and histology 
of flowering plants and ferns. 
Course B. — The physiology of plants, with special reference to 
germination, assimilation, including the effects of atmospheric impuri- 
ties on plant growth, nutrition, respiration, fermentation, together with 
the special physiology of horticultural operations, such as propaga- 
tion, pruning, forcing and retarding ; the scientific basis for rotations ; 
the relations of plants to heat, light, and moisture, and their horticul- 
tural applications. 
Course C> — Systematic botany, with special reference to the angio- 
sperms, gymnosperms, and pteridophyta in general cultivation. 
Second Year. 
Course D. — The pathology of plants, including diseases due to 
fungi and bacteria. 
Course E.> — The ecology of garden and greenhouse plants, including 
plants of the rock garden, bog, water and woodland gardens. The 
geographical distribution of plants in general cultivation. 
* Candidates are recommended to read some books or papers in French 
and in German on the subjects of the examination. 
