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of the teaching of agriculture, horticul- 
ture and related branches by correspond- 
ence for many years and we have been 
very successful in this department of our 
work. Our courses in horticulture, flori- 
culture, landscape gardening, forestry and 
botany are taught by professors in the 
department of horticulture of Cornell Uni- 
versity. Prof. Bailey was our first horti- 
cultural teacher. He was succeeded by 
Prof. Craig. Following the untimely death 
of Prof. Craig, Prof. Beal took charge of 
the work. The courses in floriculture and 
landscape gardening are taught by Prof. 
Beal, who is now acting head of the de- 
partment of horticulture of Cornell. The 
courses in horticulture, forestry and bot- 
any are taught by his assistant, Prof. Wil- 
kinson. While our course in landscape 
gardening is by no means an advanced 
course in landscape architecture or land- 
scape engineering, it is a good practical, 
helpful course. The fee is $12. This in- 
cludes text book, lesson outlines, station- 
ery and instruction covering the full twenty 
lessons of the course. Following is an 
outline of the course : 
"Lesson I. Locating and Planning the 
Home. 
“Lesson II. Preparing the Lands and 
Making the Lawn. 
“Lesson III. Trees: Their Uses and 
Preparation for Planting. 
“Lesson IV. Planting, Arrangement and 
Care of Trees. 
“Lesson V. Shrubs, Hedges and Hardy 
Climbers. 
“Lesson VI. Walks, Drives and Road- 
side Improvements. 
“Lesson VII. Renovating and Improv- 
ing Old Homes. 
“Lesson VIII. Parks, Public Squares, 
School Yards, etc., Continued. 
“Lesson IX. Study and Description of 
Trees. 
“Lesson X. Lawn and Shade Trees. 
“Lesson XI. The Study of Trees, Con- 
tinued. 
“Lesson XII. Evergreen Trees. 
“Lesson XIII Hardy Ornamental Shrubs. 
“Lesson XIV. Evergreen Shrubs and 
Climbing Vines. 
“Lesson XV. Hedge Plants and Hardy 
Herbaceous Plants. 
“Lesson XVI. Tender Plants, Aquatics 
and Hardy Ferns. 
“Lesson XVII. Insect and Fungi. 
“Lesson XVIII. The Home Fruit Garden. 
“Lesson XIX. Outdoor Studies and 
Discussion of Important Points of Course. 
“Lesson XX. Outdoor Studies and Re- 
view.” 
Some of the leading institutions offering 
complete residence courses in landscape 
architecture and forestry are : Harvard 
University, Cambridge. Mass.; Yale Uni- 
versity, New Haven, Conn.; University of 
Illinois, Urbana, 111.; Cornell University, 
Ithaca, N. Y. ; Ohio State University, Co- 
lumbus, O. ; Massachusetts Agriculture 
College, Amherst, Mass. ; Michigan State 
College of Agriculture, Agriculutural Col- 
lege, Mich. ; Iowa State University, Iowa 
City, Iowa. 
Sprinkling System and Tool House. 
I wish to get some information in regard 
to a sprinkling system for cemetery ; also 
wish to get plans for a tool house for 
cemetery, bungalow style. Any suggestion 
as to where we can get desired informa- 
tion will be appreciated. — L. M. T., la. 
For lawn sprinkling devices and ceme- 
tery water supply systems, correspond with 
The Spray Engineering Co., Dept. P., 201 
Devonshire St., Boston, Mass., and Ke- 
wanee Water Supply Co., Kewanee, 111. 
Regarding the tool house it would scarcely 
be possible to find stock plans that would 
suit your proposition. The best way would 
be to select an inconspicuous and conve- 
nient place on the grounds, figure out the 
arrangement you require for your tools 
and get a local architect to draw the 
plans you require. One superintendent 
says : “We use our barn and the furnace 
room under the office for a tool house. It 
ought not to be difficult to plan a tool 
house. I would want it convenient to my 
work, and in a place where it would not 
be unsightly.” 
LANDSCAPE STUDY in BOSTON PARKS and GARDENS 
The School of Landscape Architecture 
of Harvard University has recently issued 
an illustrated brochure, “Exceptional Op- 
portunities for Field Study ; Examples of 
Landscape Design in the Vicinity of Bos- 
ton,” that emphasizes and illustrates many 
of the historic examples of landscape 
architecture in the parks, reservations and 
private estates about Boston. 
Harvard University offers exceptional 
opportunities for the study of landscape 
architecture, including city planning, in 
its school of landscape architecture ; in 
courses of study and research given in 
other departments of the university, and 
in the notable examples accessible in the 
vicinity of Boston, of all the more im- 
portant phases of landscape design, both 
private and public. 
Boston is an exceptionally instructive 
city for study in city planning, as it con- 
tains examples, good and bad, of solu- 
tions of the great majority of the problems 
that may confront the designer in this 
field; and many projects for improvement, 
regulatory and constructional, including 
port development, are now under way. 
The system of municipal and metropolitan 
parks is one of the most completely or- 
ganized systems of public recreation spaces 
in the world, and the prototype from which 
practically all others in the United States 
have sprung. In this system, each separate 
unit plays its own part, taking its char- 
acter from its natural conditions. And 
the development for public use has en- 
hanced and completed these unusually 
varied natural units — woods, fields, ponds, 
rivers, seashore, and so on — and em- 
phasized in each case the distinctive char- 
acteristics which serve the chosen func- 
tion. In the residential neighborhoods of 
Boston, such as Brookline and the North 
Shore, are some of the best-known private 
estates in the country. In fact, the Metro- 
politan District contains to an almost un- 
rivalled extent instructive examples of 
many types of residential development 
from the simplest and least expensive to 
the most complex and costly. 
This pamphlet contains, as examples of 
these opportunities for study on the ground, 
photographs of private estates and gardens, 
recreation areas, parks, and parkways, and 
of country and seashore reservations, all 
within easy distance of Boston. 
The more important problems in the 
Harvard School of Landscape Architecture 
are worked out by actual study of the 
ground, with topographic maps of the areas 
chosen for development. The illustration 
of the Hoosicwhisick Pond shown here 
presents a view from one of the areas so 
used. 
Outside the ring of Boston’s municipal 
parks lie its metropolitan reservations, their 
natural beauty secured for future genera- 
tions and now being made accessible to 
the population by the construction of roads 
and paths, built with as little damage as 
may be to the appearance of the ground. 
Of the recreation areas necessary in the 
thickly settled portions of a great city are 
the athletic fields and playgrounds used 
intensively, sometimes for forms of exer- 
cise or play demanding special provision, 
such as the bowling-green shown in this 
illustration of Franklin Field. The play- 
grounds and other public recreation areas 
of Boston, taken together with the grounds 
for college athletics such as Soldiers Field, 
provide in this way for an unusual variety 
of outdoor sports. 
In the larger parks — the very object of 
their existence being to give relief from 
the formal, crowded, restricted city — the 
purpose of the designer must be to give 
an effect of freedom, naturalness, and 
space. The subordination of the necessary 
roads, buildings, and so on is especially 
important, although this is difficult in the 
park, where the circulation of large num- 
bers of people must be provided for. The 
Boston parks are a particularly fertile field 
for the study of these problems. 
The rapid spread of the serious study 
of landscape design and the exceptional 
opportunities which Boston and its vicin- 
ity offers for study on the ground, in con- 
nection with graduate university courses, 
give this pamphlet an unusually general in- 
terest. Copies may be obtained by address- 
ing the School of Landscape Architecture, 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and 
enclosing four cents in stamps. 
