78 Examining young Gardeners in DeyimarJc. 



plants belonging to this department and floriculture ; M. 

 Wolf in kitchen-gardens, orchards, nurseries, and the culture 

 of all the hardy fruits and vegetables known in this country. 

 M. Wolf, who is reckoned one of our first landscape-gar- 

 deners, has the examination of the department of laying out 

 pleasure-grounds, and M. HolboU has taken the examination 

 in that department of kitchen-gardening. The candidates have 

 to exhibit drawings and plans of pleasure-grounds, forcing- 

 houses, &c., and to explain how they might be laid out and 

 constructed to the best advantage. The committee have a 

 secretary, who, during the examination, marks down all the 

 questions and answers, and so each does for himself. When 

 the examination is over, all the auditors and candidates leave 

 the room, the questions and answers are compared and con- 

 sidered, and the votes given accordingly. 



The degrees of character are three; viz. the first, very 

 good J- the second, good ; the third, indifferent. 



The candidates are again called into the room, and their 

 respective characters proclaimed by the president, Professor 

 Hornemann. Every gardener afterwards receives a certificate 

 with his character as declared, and all the committee sign 

 and seal it. Gardeners who have not acquired such an inden- 

 ture are not able to get the charge of a royal or public situa- 

 tion in respect to gardening, and every private gentleman of 

 any consequence, who wants a gardener, always asks if they 

 have got such an indenture. Consequently, the ambitious 

 young gardener is obliged to be attentive to his business, so 

 as at least not to get the worst character, which, however, is 

 still often the case with many. 



An improvement in the examinations has been made during 

 the last five years : a day or two before the trial, the candi- 

 dates have an examination in writing; half an hour is gene- 

 rally allowed to every question ; they get the questions pro- 

 claimed by the secretary, who has received them from the 

 committee, and the answers are all returned in writing, which 

 must be done in the time mentioned ; and the secretary, who 

 is in the room all the time, must be accountable for no one 

 having any books or papers with him in his pocket, nor are 

 they allowed to speak to one another, nor to go out till they 

 are all done. I am, Sir, &c. 



Peter Lindegaard. 

 Copenhagen, Dec. 29. 1 827. 



Note hy M. Petersen. — When theory and practice are 

 united, and operate to the effecting of a certain purpose, it is 

 then to be hoped that such a plan or institution will be of real 



