SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 21 
is made,”’ * and it is hoped that importers and originators of 
new plants of merit will be encouraged to compete for this 
medal by the precedent established this year by the Florists’ 
Club in refusing an award except in case of very decided 
merit, in conformity with the wishes of the Trustees. 
Mr. Shaw’s expressed wish for the instruction of garden 
pupils has this year borne fruit in the completion of the 
gardening course by Mr. Homer Riggle, who was given 
a scholarship in the spring of 1890, and who on the com- 
pletion of his studies at the Garden, was appointed to a 
gardener’s position at the Ohio State University; and Mr. 
J. P. Pillsbury, who would have completed the course in 
March, 1895, has been appointed assistant to the Horticult- 
urist of the Pennsylvania State College, and will probably 
apply for examination for a certificate in 1895, after com- 
pleting the work required of garden pupils. : 
While the number of free scholarships contemplated by 
Mr. Shaw, and provided for in 1889, is limited to six, so 
many applications have been received for the admission to 
the garden classes of paying pupils, that at its meeting of 
November 16th, 1894, the Board of Trustees authorized 
the Director ‘‘to admit, in addition to those holding gar- 
den scholarships, as many suitably prepared garden pupils 
as can, in his judgment, be adequately taught without 
material increase in the cost of tuition, each pupil so ad- 
mitted to be charged $25.00 per year tuition, and to be 
entitled to the same certificate as a scholarship pupil on 
completion of the required course and examinations.’’ In 
November, therefore, a sixth announcement was issued, 
stating that the vacancy caused by the withdrawal of Mr. 
Pillsbury would be filled in March next, by the appoint- 
ment of a scholarship pupil, and that applications would 
be considered from persons desirous of entering the Garden 
next April as pupils without any of the scholarship grants 
or payments, and subject to the payment of a tuition fee 
of twenty-five dollars at the beginning of each class year. 
To avoid unnecessary duplication of instruction both at 
* Fifth Report, pp. 18, 19. 
