August 26, 



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Garden and Forest 



345 



Foreign Correspondence 

 London Letter. 



Swanley College is a teaching school of horticulture for 

 young men and women, most of whom are residential, the 

 course of training being two or three years of practical 

 horticulture combined with class-room work. Sir William 



in the practical branch, for education nowadays was some- 

 what too bookish. Speaking of foreign competition he 

 remarked that it was interesting to notice how foreigners 

 were taught to use their hands. In the matter of railway 

 work he had seen abroad men who were able to pack into 

 three trucks the material which in Great Britain went into 

 four; this, of course, resulted in a great saving of money. 



1. Flowering branch, natural size. 



Fig. 46.— Lonicera liirsuta X SuIIivanlii. — See page 344. 

 Flower of L. liirsuta, natural size. 3. Flower of hybrid, natural size. 



Flower of L. Sullivantii, natural size. 



Hart Dyke, Bart., M. P., who presided recently at the prize 

 distribution among the students, said the college was abso- 

 lutely unequaled in the educational system of the country, 

 for it was the only school where the students, male and 

 female, paid attention to both the practical and the theo- 

 retical side of horticulture. It was specially satisfactory 

 to him to know that the governors took a deep interest 



There were few pleasanter occupations than gardening; 

 certainly it was a better way of obtaining a livelihood than 

 by working in a mine or a factory, or sweating in some 

 den. During the proceedings it was remarked that for 

 every woman who had left the college a lucrative ami sat- 

 isfactory appointment had been found. It is well that 

 attention should be called to the wisdom of practical teach- 



