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The lodging house will include a reading-room supplied with the more 

 valuable horticultural and agricultural papers, and also with a small but 

 standard collection of books on the same subjects, of which the pupils will 

 have free use. So far as possible, the surroundings of pupils will be 

 made home-like, and without assuming any responsibility for their behavior, 

 an effort will be made to subject them to influences calculated to insure for 

 them gentlemanly manners and habits of industry and investigation. 



"During the first year of their scholarship, garden pupils will work at the 

 practical duties of the Garden nine or ten hours daily, according to the sea- 

 son, the same as regular employees of the Garden, and will also be ex- 

 pected to read the notes and articles referring to the subject of their work, 

 in one or more good journals. 



' ' In the second year, in addition to five hours' daily work of the same sort, 

 they will be given instruction and will be required to do thorough reading 

 in vegetable gardening, flower gardening, small-fruit culture, and orchard 

 culture, besides keeping the run of the current papers. 



" In the third year, in addition to five hours of daily labor, they will be in- 

 structed and given reading in forestry, elementary botany, landscape gar- 

 dening, and the rudiments of surveying and draining, and will be required 

 to take charge of clipping or indexing some department of the current gar- 

 dening papers for the benefit of all. 



"In the fourth year, besides the customary work, they will study the 

 botany of weeds, garden vegetables and fruits, in addition to assisting in 

 the necessary indexing or clipping of papers, etc., and will be taught simple 

 book-keeping, and the legal forms for leases, deeds, etc. 



" The course for the fifth year, in addition to the customary work, will in- 

 clude the study of vegetable physiology, economic entomology, and fungi, 

 especially those which cause diseases of cultivated plants ; and each pupil 

 will be expected to keep a simple set of accounts pertaining to some de- 

 partment of the Garden. 



" In the sixth year, in addition to the manual work, pupils will study the 

 botany of garden and greenhouse plants, of ferns, and of trees in their 

 winter condition, besides the theoretical part of special gardening, con- 

 nected with some branch of the work that they are charged with in the 

 Garden. 



" From time to time, changes in this course will be made, as they shall ap- 

 pear to be desirable, and the effort will be made to give the best theoretical 

 instruction possible in the various subjects prescribed ; but it is not intended 

 to make botanists or other scientific specialists of garden pupils, but, on the 

 contrary, practical gardeners." 



"To the end that garden pupils shall be repaid for their services to the 

 Garden, and that the absence of pecuniary means need not deter any young 

 man from obtaining such training as is contemplated, each regularly ap- 

 pointed garden pupil holding a scholarship shall be entitled to the following 

 wages, payable in equal installments at the end of each fortnight : For the 

 first year, $200.00 ; for the second year, $250.00 ; and for each year after 

 the second, $300.00 ; together with plain but comfortable lodgings con- 

 venient to the Garden." 



