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Horticultural education at VHCC follows a well-trodden path:

All horticultural subjects are treated chiefly by lectures, supplemented by references to standard works. Essays are prepared by students on the various topics considered throughout the course. The laboratory and industrial work pursued during the entire course combine theory with practice.

The botany previously required, together with industrials taken by young men in orchards, nursery, and greenhouses, fit the student for the study of the general principles underlying a systematic study of plant growth, propagation, environment, and improvement; involving a study of seeding, cutting, budding, grafting, layering, etc.; the management and location of nurseries; and the training, selection, packing and shipping of stock; their special treatment being illustrated by field study.

From the Kansas State Agricultural College General Catalog, 1897-1898, p.58.