FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 97 



Applications for sciiolarships, to receive consideration, must be in the 

 hands of the Director not later than the first day of March. The pre- 

 liminary examination for all candidates will be held on Tuesday, March 

 4th, at the Shaw School of Botany, 1724 "Washington avenue, St. Louis, 

 between 10 a. m. and 5 p. ra. If the number of applicants exceeds six, 

 competitive examinations, based on the subjects Indicated above, will 

 be held at the same place on Friday and Saturday, March 7th and 8th. 



Candidates who live at places remote from St. Louis, and who wish 

 to be spared the expense of coming to the city for examination, may 

 send with their application, the name and address of the principal of 

 the nearest high school or of some approved private school, in case he 

 is willing to take charge of such examination for them ; but all applica- 

 tions of this character must be in the hands of the Director not later 

 than the middle of February. If the examiner is approved, papers will 

 be sent to him before the date set for the examination, and on the pay- 

 ment of a fee of #2.00 to him, the candidate may write on them in his 

 presence. If competitive examinations are also required, the same ex- 

 aminer will receive the papers for them in time to submit them to the 

 candidate on the date set for similar examinations in St. Louis, on re- 

 ceipt of an additional fee of $3.00 as a partial payment for his time in 

 conducting the examination. The papers written on such examina- 

 tions will be forwarded by the examiner to the Director, who will read 

 them in connection with those written in St. Louis, before making any 

 awards. 



Successful candidates will be started in their duties as garden pupils 

 on Tuesday, April 1st, at the Botanical Garden. They will be lodged in 

 comfortable rooms in a spacious dwelling adjoining the Garden, under 

 the charge of the Head Gardener or some other competent person. It 

 is not the intention of the Trustees to furnish table board, but good 

 board can be obtained in the lodging house or elsewhere, at the usual 

 cost. The lodging house will include a reading-room supplied with the 

 more valuable horticultural and agricultural papers, and also with a 

 small but standard collection of books on the same subjects, which the 

 pupils will have free use of. So far as possible, the surroundings of 

 pupils will be made homelike, and without assuming any responsibility 

 for their behavior, an effort will be made to subject them to influences 

 calculated to insure for them gentlemanly manners and habits of in- 

 dustry and investigation. 



During the first year of their scholarship, garden pupils will work at 

 the practical duties of the Garden nine or ten hours daily, according to 

 the season, the same as regular employees of the Garden, and will also 

 be expected to read the notes and articles referring to the subject of 

 their work, in one or more good journals. 



In the second year, in addition to five hours' daily work of the same 

 sort, they will be given instruction and will be required to do thorough 

 reading in vegetable gardening, flower gardening, small -fruit culture, 

 and orchard culture, besides keeping the run of the current papers. 



In the third year, in addition to five hours of daily labor, they will be 



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