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Writing, press-copying, entering, &c., letters despatched. 

 Indexing botli Letter Books. 

 Filing Letters and Papers dealt witli. 

 (2.) Accounts : 

 Cash Book. 

 Ledger. 



Petty Tash Book. 



Monthly (.'ash Account for Audit Office. 

 Weekly Fay Bills for Gardens. 

 (3.) Minor Accounts : — 

 Postages. 



Receipts of moneys for plants, &c. 

 Superintendent's Orders for Goods. 

 Petty rash with Colonial Bank. 

 Salaries. 



Subscriptions to Bulletin and Kew Bulletin. 

 Imprest Account with Mayor and Council re Parade Garden. 

 Library Books. 

 (4.) Miscellaneous: — 



List of addresses for Bulletin. 



Stamping and addressing covers for Bulletins (monthly). 



Forwarding Kew l^uUetins to Subscribers. 



Keeping list of Contributions to the Department. 



Seed I .edger, list of seed and plants received and despatched. 



List of applications for plants, seeds, &c. 



Distribution of seeds, e. g., Onion and Tobacco seed to Island Correspondents. 



Do. to I iotanic Gardens. 

 Cataloguing Library Books. 

 Newspaper clippings, and indexing same. 



List of quarterly supplies of stationery for Head Office and Superintendents. 

 Requisitions and Monthly Retu ns. 

 Free i > rants of Plants, registering, &c. 

 (5.) Special Items : — 



Appropriation Accoimt 

 Estimates. 



Instructors' Account. 

 Furniture and Stationery. 

 Accounts for Annual Flower Show. 



Hope Industrial School. 



In the last Repoi't the question of instruction in the Industrial School was fully entered into, but no 

 advance was made during the year in the way of putting this Institution on a more satisfactory footing, 

 except some correspondence on the subject between Members of the Board of Visitors, myself, and the 

 H onourable the Colonial ^ ecretary. 



A s there appears to be a good deal of misconcepti n as to the nature of the gardener's business and 

 the training necessary to qualify for it, it may be useful to attempt to make the subject clearer. 



In England where gardening is a regular business perhaps not more than one in every l,Oi)0 of the 

 population chooses it as a livelih od, and of those who are attracted to it not more than 5 ' per cent, are 

 even moderately successful. It requires an aptitude and a love for gardening that few possess, in order to 

 do well. 



The training is severe, — to give an instance, supplied by one who has undergone it — a boy is appren- 

 ticed for, from 3 to 5 years, and has to work like a slave .2 hours a day, and extra time in winter making 

 up hot-house fires. In the best gardens a premium of £10 or £20 is paid to the Head Gardeners. During 

 the first year the boy gets no pay at all, and during the two next years about 3s. 6d. a week He then 

 goes as a journeyman gardener for 5 years or more, working 13 hours a day. He may then get a place as 

 a Foreman for from 4 to 8 years, but he cannot do so unless he has already found spare time to read a good 

 deal about the theory of the subject. After having served as P'oreman, he may, if he has been successful 

 and is well recommended, get a post as Head Gardener. 



Of course the object of the Industrial School would be a more humble one, viz , to turn out the boys 

 at the end of their time not only as ^ood labourers, but with some idea of the reasons for various agricul- 

 tural operations, and some knowledge of proper methods of preparing produce for market. 



Even to become good labourers requires constant drilling in the elementary operations of digging, 

 forking, raking, hoeing, weeding, rolling, mowing, watering, &c., and all these require training by a man 

 who understands the work. They cannot be taught by simply turning the boys into the garden and 

 telling them to weed or dig 



It is evident that if the boys are to learn anything about pruning, budding, grafting and the parti- 

 cular cultivation necessary for various plants, and the methods for curing their products, they must re- 

 ceive instruction from those competent to impart it. In large gardens in England, they are passed on 

 from one special gardener to another, learning one art from one, and another from another, but here 

 there is no one in the Gardens except the Superintendents themselves who could instruct them. 



The plan that commends itself most to my mind would be to appoint someone as instinictor from one 



