Advertisements. 



PROSPECTUS^ 



OF THE 



School of Horticulture, 



The school is designed for the teaching and training of orchardists 

 gardeners and managers of fruit-growing properties. It is situated in a 

 near suburb of Melbourne, and has a good tram and train service. 



The estate comprises upwards of 40 acres of varied land, of which 

 twenty are at present devoted to fruit trees, vegetable culture, a nursery 

 and flower gardens. 



New stables, plant houses, frames, sheds and other buildings have 

 recently been erected. Class, dressing, luncheon and work rooms form 

 portion of a large pavilion, wherein shelter and occupation are found 

 in adverse weather. 



Class-room instruction is given in horticultural science, vegetable 

 pathology, botany, chemistry of soils and plants, physical and com- 

 mercial geography, entomology, measuring, levelling, designing, and 

 plotting of homesteads, orchards and garden areas, and the most 

 approved methods of raising and managing fruit trees and plants. 

 Practical work includes the propagation and management of orchard 

 trees, citrus, table grapes, bush fruits ; harvesting, storing, packing, 

 marketing, drying and canning of fruit, vegetable culture, clearing, 

 grading and trenching of land, management of soils, manures, drainage, 

 villa gardening and care of domestic animals. 



Application for admission should be made to the Secretary for 

 Agriculture, Public Offices, Melbourne, from whom further information 

 may be obtained. 



AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL and VINE, and FRUIT 

 GROWERS' SOCIETIES. 



Notice. 



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 Show duly announced, and Secretaries are requested to furnish the Editor with 

 the requisite information for publication in these columns. 



