PROSPHCTUS. 
SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. 
1. The maximum number of students is twenty-five (25). 
2. The instruction is free. 
8. Students are non-resident. 
4, Applications from intending students will be received by the 
Secretary for Agriculture, Public Offices, Melbourne. 
5. Applications for vacancies which may occur will be dealt 
with in the order of priority of application. 
6. Each student on admission must be over the age of fourteen 
years, and must produce a State school certificate, or an equiva- 
lent thereto, as to his education, together with a certificate of 
moral character from some person of known good repute, a justice 
of the peace, or a clergyman. 
7. A moiety of the students may be adults, who may not be 
required to furnish school certificates. 
8. All applications for admission as students must be accom- 
panied by a sum of Five pounds (£5) as a guarantee for good 
behaviour, and which may be used for payment of fines. 
9, Students are received for a term of not less than six months, 
and not more than three years. 
10. Each student shall conform to the rules and regulations for 
the time being in force for the government and management of 
the gardens, under penalty of expulsion or of such lesser punish- 
ment as the board of advice may impose. 
11. The course of instruction will include practical horticulture 
in its various branches, botany, vegetable pathology, and agricul- 
tural science as applied to horticulture. 
12, An examination of students will be held at least once in 
each year by examiners to be appointed by the board. 
13. Students who shall, at the end of the second or third year’s 
training, have passed a satisfactory examination in the subjects 
taught may be granted a certificate of proficiency. , 
