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3. That he is sufficiently acquainted with arithmetic to be able to keep 

 accounts. 



4. That he is able to measure land, and make simple ground plans. 



No person, after having heen received into the Garden, can be recommended to 

 a place as gardener until he shall have submitted to examination, not only in 

 the three last subjects, but also in geography, and the elements of botany 

 and vegetable physiology. 



When any person employed in the Garden is ready to undergo such an ex- 

 amination, he is to give notice in writing to the assistant secretary, who will 

 appoint the time and manner in which the examination is to take place. The 

 result of the examination will be recorded in a book kept for the purpose : if 

 it be satisfactory, a certificate to that effect will be granted, and the person ex- 

 amined will be then entitled to be recommended to a place, provided his 

 general conduct is approved of. 



The standard of qualification is placed very low by the Committee, in order 

 to render the system of examination applicable to all capacities; but the ex- 

 aminer will have directions to raise it in those cases in which men may desire 

 it; and the certificates will be varied accordingly. Of course, those persons 

 will be considered to be qualified for the highest places whose examinations 

 are the most successful. 



The examinations will be verbal, and private. [This appears to us the 

 only doubtful part of the plan. We certainly think that, at least, two or 

 more members of the Garden Committee, and the head gardener, and perhaps, 

 also, the foremen of the different departments, ought to be present at the 

 examination.] 



A copy of these resolutions is to be given to every person employed in the 

 Garden, and is to be transmitted to every candidate for admission. 



Publication of the Names of Gardeners who have been examined. 



It is our intention to apply to the Council of the Horticultural Society for 

 permission to publish the names of all candidates who have passed their ex- 

 amination, immediately after they have obtained their certificate ; in the mean 

 while we have been favoured by Dr. Lindley with the following list of names. 



Certificates granted in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London, from 

 June \st to October \st, 1836. 



June 24. — George Henry Brown of Stockport, Cheshire. A certificate of 

 the second class. 



August 1. — John Lumsden of Inchture, Perthshire. A certificate bf the 

 first class. 



September 26. — Bobert Fortune of Kelloe, Berwickshire. An extra cer- 

 tificate of the first class. 



Horticultural Society, October 10. 1836. 



Art. III. Obituary. 



Mr. James Young, F. H. S., of the Epsom Nursery, who was much re- 

 spected, by both professional and commercial gardeners, and by a numerous 

 circle of friends, died in the last week of September. 



Mr. Robert Adams died in the month of January last, at the School-house 

 of Banchoy, Devinich, schoolmaster of that parish, at the age of 45 years. 

 He was a most enthusiastic, persevering, and intelligent florist, and possessed a 

 collection equalled by few, and surpassed by none, to the truth of which the 

 books of the Aberdeenshire Horticultural Society bear ample testimony. The 

 premature demise of Mr. Adams is universally regretted by a numerous circle 

 of practical men, who enjoyed the pleasure of his acquaintance. 



