Teaching in the Garden. 
In the year 1892 the Board of Agriculture, then recently 
established 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 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 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 boys and young men intending to 
become Gardeners or Foresters who may wish to serve for a 
period in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
2. The number of boys and young men who can be so 
admitted is limited. 
3. Such entrants will be in the position of Probationers, asa . 
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. 
