The "Recognition and application of garden trees" is a very important professional core course of the specialty of the landscape engineering technology. It is not only an important support of the follow-up courses of this specialty, but also is the requisite knowledge and skills directly applied to the landscape design, the cultivation and conservation of the landscape plants, and the construction and management of the landscape engineering and other work. In order to highlight the characteristic of the cultivation of the professional abilities, in the teaching reform of the curriculum, we should reflect the requirements of the professional jobs, and focus on the cultivation of the students' observation abilities, their practice abilities, and their cooperation and innovation abilities.