National Educational and Legal Interests. 



grown produce than any which reaches our shores from 



mand its price, and no foreign produce can compete against 

 it. We have a proof of this in the high price which English 



markets. We are prepared to admit that, to a large extent, ^ueatjon^ 



would be madness to say anything to the contrary. What 

 we urge is that with proper attention, better fruit could be 

 grown at home than any which ws import, and that this fruit 

 commands a better price abroad than at home : then why 



into the foreigner's pocket gather back some of his into our 

 own ? This we shall do in the future, and, thanks to the 

 progressive tendency of the age, the 'day of brighter things' 



and the horticultural colleges are doing much towards dis- 

 persing the gloom which has for so long enshrouded horti- 

 culture. With the instruction imparted by these agents 

 progress will be made. It is highly essential that every 

 gardener should have a technical education ; as the result of 

 this he will be able to choose his produce more wisely and 



nerative prices will then be commanded. Th?s is the most 

 pleasing phase of the future, and it is the standard which we 



France has long 3 had } an efficient system of agricultural 

 instruction,* to which has been added during the year the 

 first professorship of landscape gardening in existence, at the Education 

 Ecole Nationale d'Horticulture at Versailles, and to which ,n France - 

 Edward Andre" has been called. Belgium, Germany and 

 other European countries are equipped with several technical 

 garden schools. Following are some isolated accounts which 

 indicate the extent and character of horticultural and kindred 

 teaching in some European schools : 



The National School of Horticulture at Versailles had this 

 year 72 candidates for admission, of whom 64 entered. This 

 is the greatest number ever admitted at once. Twenty-one 

 ^departments" of France are represented, showing that the 



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