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to endow six scholarships for such pupils, lodging the latter 
at Garden expense, making them a certain cash allowance 
each year while they remain at the institution, and giving 
them all necessary opportunities for both theoretical and 
practical instruction. Guided by these directions and sug- 
gestions, the Board, in 1889, created six such scholarships, * 
at first fixing the course of study at six years, but after- 
ward f shortening it to four years. 
The present status of the course for garden pupils is in- 
dicated in the following eighth annual announcement, which 
is reprinted from a pamphlet issued in November, 1896 :— 
In accordance with the intention of its honored founder, the Trustees 
of the Garden offer theoretical and practical instruction for young men 
desirous of becoming gardeners. It is not intended at present that many 
persons shall be trained at the same time, nor that the instruction so 
planned shall duplicate the excellent courses in agriculture now offered 
by the numerous State Colleges of the country, but that it shall be quite 
distinct and limited to what is thought to be necessary for training practi- 
cal gardeners. 
To this end, resolutions were adopted by the Trustees, at a meeting 
held on the 19th of November, 1889, and amended at a meeting of March 
9th, 1892, as follows :— 
** Resolved, That there be established the number of six scholarships 
for garden pupils of the Missouri Botanical Garden, to be available on 
and after April 1, 1890, such scholarships to be awarded by the Director 
of the Garden on the results of competitive examination, except as here- 
inafter provided, to young men between the ages of 14 and 20 years, of 
good character and possessing at least a good elementary English edu- 
cation; each scholarship to grant such privileges and be subject to such 
conditions as are provided below or may subsequently be provided by the 
Trustees of the Garden, 
‘‘Until otherwise ordered, two such scholarships shall be reserved 
for candidates to be named by the State Horticultural Society of Mis- 
souri, and the Florists’ Club of St. Louis, respectively; provided, that 
such candidates shall be given scholarships only after passing satisfac- 
tory preliminary examinations, and shall be subject after appointment to 
all tests and regulations prescribed for other candidates and pupils, and 
that if the names of such candidates are not presented by the Societies 
designated, within sixty days after such actionis requested by the Direc- 
tor, the vacancies may be filled by him on competitive examination, as in 
other cases. 
* First Report, 94. ¢ Fourth Report, 17. 
