Xiv TEACHING IN THE GARDEN. 
Course of Instruction in the Sciences underlying the practice and 
the principles of Horticulture and Forestry free of charge, and 
they must attend the course, and also use the Library and 
Reading Room of the Garden. The subjects of Instruction, 
which are arranged in a curriculum extending over from two and 
a half to three years, are :—Botany, Chemistry, Entomology, 
Geology, Meteorology, Physics, Surveying and Mensuration, 
Bookkeeping, Horticulture, and Forestry, and these are taught 
practically as far as possible. 
7, At the conclusion of the Course of Instruction the Pro- 
bationer will in ordinary course give place to a new entrant. 
8. Any Probationer who does not show satisfactory progress 
in studies, or who does not give satisfaction otherwise, will be 
removed. 
g. A grant in aid (subsistence allowance) will be given to each 
Probationer. The amount given to a Probationer at admission 
will depend upon his age, experience, and capacity. The minimum 
will be at the rate of ten shillings a week, and the maximum at 
the rate of twenty-one shillings a week. Probationers who receive 
at entrance less than the maximum may, after admission, receive 
increments in relation to fitness and merit alike in the work of 
the Garden and in the Course of Instruction. 
10. Holiday leave to the amount in all of eight working days 
in the year, in addition to Christmas Day, New Year’s: Day, 
Victoria Day, Spring and Autumn Holidays, is allowed after six 
months’ service. 
11. Probationers may be called upon to work on Sundays, and 
will receive remuneration for such work on a recognised scale. 
12. Probationers will wear when at work a grey flannel shirt 
with turn-over collar of the same material, and a blue serge suit 
of clothes ; in the Glass and Herbaceous Departments an apron 
after pattern at the Garden must be worn. 
13. Applicants must distinctly understand that the times of 
duty of Probationers are such as may be necessary, that admission 
as a Probationer is only an ordinary weekly hiring subject to a 
week’s notice from any day, and subject to instant dismissal in 
case of misconduct, with subsistence allowance up to date of dis- 
missal only, and does not entitle to any superannuation or to 
any compassionate or other allowance at the termination thereof, 
excepting such allowance or gratuity as might be awarded under 
the Superannuation Act, 1887 (Secs. 1 and 4), or any Act or 
