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practical horticultural positions in agricultural colleges on 
completing their work here, while one, after a season’s 
study in the Arnold Arboretum, has begun a year’s further 
work at the Kew Gardens. 
In March, 1896, three pupils completed the course of 
study and were given certificates, namely, Clyde M. Blank- 
inship, Arthur T. Erwin, and Emil Mische. In conformity 
with an announcement issued in the preceding autumn, the 
three vacancies thus created were filled by the appointment 
of Walter Retzer, of St. Louis (who for some time had 
been a special student), on the nomination of the Florists’ 
Club of St. Louis, and the appointment of Charles W. 
Deusner and Cornelius Winther on the results of examina- 
tion. 
At the Horticultural Congress held in Chicago, in 1893, 
in connection with the Columbian Exposition, the subject 
of horticultural education was discussed by the Director of 
the Garden and other persons,* attention being called to 
the course of study adopted at the Garden. In 1895, 
at the Pittsburg meeting of the Society of American Flo- 
rists, a paper of somewhat comparable scope was presented 
by Mr. Charles Jackson Dawson,f in which the St. Louis 
course of study was made the basis of comparison. Quite 
recently, Mr. Emil Mische, one of the garden pupils, who 
had received a certificate, presented a paper before the 
Gardeners’ and Florists’ Club of Boston, in which the 
work done at the Garden is quite fully set forth. Besides 
these articles, which are directly concerned with the course 
as offered at the Garden, a considerable number of appre- 
ciative notices have appeared in both the American and 
foreign press, from time to time. 
Although it must be admitted that the instruction of a 
small number of pupils makes the relative cost of training 
* Florists’ Exchange, 1893, 748. 
+ Proc. Soc. Amer. Florists, 1895, 41. 
¢ Printed in the American Florist of Oct. 17, 1896, 244. 
