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 desiring to become gardeners and 
foresters. The fact deserves record, because it marks the intro- 
duction 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, 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 
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