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CHRONICLE. 
165 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 
THE EDUCATION 
GARDENERS, 
I would certainly not be difficult to name 
men of eminence as gardeners, who, before 
they entered the bothy, had no education beyond 
that of the primary school. They have acquired 
their practical knowledge in the only school in 
which it be obtained—that of practical 
experience; and, so far as they have at all sup- 
plemented this practical knowledge by learning 
the scientific principles that underlie its rules of 
OF 
the intervals of a busy life. 3 
be borne in mind that in the case of many such 
gardeners, the primary school in question was 
across the Bor 
It would, on the other hand, we may safely 
say, be impossible to find one of these self-taught 
eminence who does not regret that he 
had not greater educational facilities in his 
Fac aici 
y only to a future ge 
tion ; but it is well worth while to consider whit 
practical steps might be taken in this direction 
at the present time. In doing so, we ought to 
bear in mind the ———— of those who have 
already started in their career, as well as of those 
who have their time before them. What seems to 
be eens is, firstly, a sound radimentary training 
in“ the three R.’s,” necessary for all children 
alike, which t need not occupy them beyond their 
ninth year; secondly, continuation schools, in 
which a certain degree of specialisation is desir- 
able, which should occupy all a boy’s time until 
he is thirteen, fourteen, or ever fifteen; and 
thirdly, a systematic curriculum of classes which 
can be attended by any after those ages, whilst 
engaged in practical work, 
Tue Primary Schnoor. 
If parents sincerely wish their children to succeed 
in after ve they will certainly do their beat to secure 
for them a sound grounding in those elementary 
subjects cee essential to all: they will send them 
to school early and regularly; and they will not 
i them prematurel, 
trai 
the hand to oo but ag should supple- 
ment, nowise take the place of, the 
“ three RS. 
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