SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 27 
feit all claim on any scholarship, which may then be awarded to another 
person in the prescribed manner. 
‘¢Garden pupils, appointed as above indicated, shall be regarded as 
apprentices in the Botanical Garden, and as such shall be required to 
work init under the direction of the Head Gardener, performing the 
duties of garden hands. They shall be successively advanced from 
simpler to more responsible tasks; and, in such order as may seem best, 
shall be transferred from one department of the Garden to another, un- 
til they shall have become thoroughly familiar with the work of all. 
“To the end that garden pupils shall be repaid for their services to 
the Garden, and that the absence of pecuniary means need not deter 
any young man from obtaining such training as is contemplated, each 
regularly appointed garden pupil holding a scholarship shall be entitled 
to the following wages, payable in equal installments at the end of each 
fortnight; For the first year, $200.00; for the second year, $250.00; and 
for each year after the second, $300.00; together with plain but com- 
fortable lodgings convenient to the Garden. 
‘In order that they may have opportunity to become instructed in the 
theoretical part of their profession, and in subjects connected therewith, 
such pupils shall not be required to do manual work in the Garden for 
more than five hours per day after the first year, devoting the remain- 
der of their time to the study of horticulture, forestry, botany, and ento- 
mology, under the direction of the Director of the Garden; and they 
shall for this purpose be granted free tuition in the School of Botany of 
Washington University. They shall also receive practical instruction 
in surveying and book-keeping, so far as a knowledge of these subjects 
is held to be necessary for a practical gardener charged with the man- 
agement of an estate of moderate proportions. 
‘¢ At the expiration of six years, the holder of a scholarship, who is 
recommended as practically proficient, shall be entitled to examination 
by the Garden Committee, in the subjects prescribed for study, and on 
passing such examination to the satisfaction of the Committee and 
Director, he shall receive a certificate of proficiency in the theory and 
practice of gardening, signed by the Chairman of the Garden Committee 
and the Director of the Garden. In exceptional cases, candidates may 
be admitted to examination at the end of the fifth year, when this shall 
be deemed advisable by the Garden Committee, and on passing such ex- 
amination satisfactorily, shall be entitled to a statement to that effect 
from the Diréctor, and to the regular certificate on the subsequent com- 
pletion of a year’s work to the satisfaction of their employers.’’ 
All applicants for scholarships, whether named by the societies in- 
dicated above or not, will be examined in the following subjects, so far 
as they are taught in the upper classes of grammar schools: English 
grammar, reading, writing, and spelling, arithmetic, and geography. 
If the number of candidates for scholarships exceeds the number 
of scholarships to be awarded at any time, all candidates except 
those named by the societies indicated, will be required to pass a 
