In Class

This popular class has been coming to SCARC for nearly 10 years. Visits happen for their final session of the quarter; faculty promote the visit as the students' "piece of candy" at the end of the quarter to celebrate their good work. After a short show-and-tell, students browse a large selection of our horticulture and botanical materials looking for links to their current learning. Table themes include: Discovery, Exploration, and Identification, 1550-1700; Early American Horticulture, 1800-1860; Botanical Illustration 1750-1890; Horticulture at OSU, 1870-2020; and Horticulture in Oregon, 1850-1950. Activities have included "Find a Woman," in which students look for any mention of women in these artifacts from male-dominated sciences; and "Analyzing Botanical Illustrations," in which students identify the different parties involved in the making of illustrations through time (see below). An Ecampus version of this session was created in Fall 2024.

Selections

Selection list for HORT 226

Learning Objects

In Class

This class has also been coming to SCARC for their final session for nearly 10 years. After a short show-and-tell, students browse a selection of materials related to flowering plants, fruit, and the history of gardening and cultivation. Activities have included the Anatomy of a Botanical Illustration (see above), and comparison of different garden layouts and fruit cultivation techniques over centuries to see similarities and differences with today's practices. Table themes include: Early Modern Gardening and Fruit-Culture, 1570-1700; Botanical Illustration, 1600-1850; Seed and Nursery Catalogs, 1850-1950; Fruit-Growing in Oregon, 1880-1975; Flowering Shrubs at OSU, 1880-1980. Activities have included examining seed pricing trends, exploring horticultural choices in campus history, and comparing early modern gardening schedules to modern ones.

Selections

Selections for HORT 228

In Class

Instructor Dan Blanchard taught this course for the first time in Winter 2024. Students examined table themes including: Early Modern Gardens, 1550-1650; European Public Gardens, 1600-1900; Landscape Architecture History, 1750-1900; and Public Horticulture, 1800-2024.

Selections

Selections for HORT 399

In Class

Professor Aaron Liston brought this class multiple years for a session on taxonomy and classification. Table themes included Pre-Linnean Classification, 1550-1750; Linnaeus and His Influence, 1750-1850, Regional Floras, 1850-1950, and Modern Works, 1950-2020. Students were assigned species to track in classification texts across multiple centuries. An Ecampus session for this class was filmed in 2019.

Selections

Selections from BOT 323