Fruit Growing in Hungary. 



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Side by side with these efforts it has been the aim of the 

 Department to train up a class of expert gardeners and horti- 

 cultural labourers who could enter the service of the State or 

 the larger private landowners, and to disseminate a knowledge 

 of horticultural science among the people generally. 



In 1894 the Viticultural Institute of Budapest was trans- 

 formed into a Horticultural College, with a three years' course 

 of instruction for young men, who, after four years' training in 

 a secondary school, had worked for two years on a model 

 horticultural farm. At the end of the three years' course 

 the students pass a final examination in all branches of horti- 

 culture. There are usually about thirty students at the 

 College, attached to which is a model orchard of about ninety 

 acres. 



In 1897 there was established a one year's course for young 

 gardeners who had had three years' practical experience in 

 horticulture. There are very many men of this class in the 

 country, who, owing to their ignorance of the theory and science 

 of the subject, are often unable to obtain employment. A 

 primary course of practical instruction for horticultural labourers 

 was established in 1895 aR d is now carried on at four different 

 centres. In addition to horticulture, they are instructed in 

 bee-keeping, basket making, and wood carving, and they readily 

 obtain situations, as there is a great demand for their work. 



In addition, there are several other colleges and schools, 

 especially training colleges for schoolmasters, where instruction 

 in horticulture is given, lectures are arranged for the people 

 in their neighbourhood, and model orchards or gardens are 

 maintained. 



Short courses of instruction, lasting about ten days, are 

 frequently arranged for schoolmasters and clergymen, and 

 these have been so largely attended that, at the present time, 

 there is probably at least one schoolmaster in each of the-419 

 administrative districts of the country who has some practical 

 knowledge of horticulture. 



In order to disseminate a knowledge of horticulture among 

 the people generally, the Department of Agriculture publishes 

 a weekly paper called the Fruit Gardener, which, has a circu- 

 lation of 14,000 copies, In addition, 30,0:00 copies of a pamphlet, 



