Teaching in the Garden. 
IN the year 1892 the Board of Agriculture, then recently estab- 
lished in England, assigned a small grant to the Royal Botanic 
Garden towards the institution of a Course of Instruction in the 
Sciences underlying the Practice of Horticulture and Forestry 
for the benefit of young men and women desiring to become 
Gardeners and Foresters. The fact deserves record, because it 
marks the introduction in Scotland of a systematised effort to 
provide scientific instruction to practical men in Gardening and 
Forestry. 
The Course of Instruction has. been carried on since. The 
following schedule—copies of which may be obtained by applica- 
tion to the Regius Keeper—indicates the terms upon which young 
men and women are at present admitted to the Course :— 
Admission of Probationers. 
1. The First Commissioner of His Majesty’s Works is willing 
to consider applications from young men and women intending 
to become Gardeners or Foresters who may wish to serve for a 
period in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
2. The number of young men and women who can be so 
admitted is limited. 
3. Such entrants will be in the position of Probationers, as a 
special class in the service of the Garden. Their work will be 
such as may be assigned to them, and they will work under all 
the regulations in force in the Garden. 
4. Applicants must be unmarried and not over 25 years of age. 
5. Each Applicant must furnish a medical certificate of fitness 
and a recommendation and certificate of character from a person 
of position to whom the Applicant is well known, and if the 
Applicant is or has been previously in a situation, a certificate 
from the present or last employer must be forwarded. Applicants 
who have had practical experience in Gardening or Forestry must - 
state the amount of this and also if they have had experience of 
cultivation of plants under Glass. 
6. Probationers will have the opportunity of attending a 
Course of Instruction in the Sciences underlying the practice and 
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