University of Minnesota. Division of Horticultural Science

During the 1870s and 1880s, courses in horticulture were taught as a part of the agriculture curriculum at the University, and research in horticultural variety testing began at the Agricultural Experiment Station in the 1880s. Samuel B. Green was hired as the first head of the Department of Horticulture within the College of Agriculture in 1888.

The 1888-1889 University Catalogue for the College of Agriculture described the Horticulture curriculum as “relations of heat, light, moisture, and food to plant growth...plant houses, hot beds, etc.; soils and manures, and their manipulations; propagation of plants; grafting, budding, pruning, training, etc.; planting and transplanting…” with cultivation of large and small fruits as well as “kitchen gardening, market gardening, landscape gardening, and floriculture.”

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