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THE HOETICULTURAL COLLEGE, SWANLEY 1 

 Principal : Miss F. R. Wilkinson 

 Vice- Principal and Secretary : Miss M. Kekewich 

 Lady Superintendent : Mrs. Watson, South Bank, Swanley 



LECTURERS 



Bee-keeping, W. Herrod, F.E.3, Book-keeping, H. W. 

 Kersey (Lecturer on Book-keeping, Wye College). Botany, 

 Vegetable Pathology, R. J. Tabor, F.L.S, Dairy, Miss 

 Dawson, N.D.D. (Certificate Midland Dairy Institute). 

 Entomology, F. V. Theobald, M.A., F.L.S. (Lecturer on 

 Entomology, Wye College). Gardening, Miss Villiers- 

 Stuart. ^Greenhouse Construction, F. A. Fawkes. Horti- 

 cultural Science and Rural Economy, F. J. Baker, A.R.C.Sc. 

 Lond. Manual Training, W. Herrod. Poultry, Miss 

 Dawson. 



Head Gardener : Mr. J. Lawson 



There is also a staff of under-gardeners and labourers. 



The college is situated seventeen and a half miles from 

 London, and one and a half miles from Swanley Junction 

 Station on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. 



Women were admitted in 1892, the college being the 

 first place to open its doors to women students who wished 

 to obtain a thorough training in horticulture. 



It stands in forty -three acres of freehold land, allotted 

 to fiower, kitchen, market gardens, fruit plantations, 

 plajdng fields, also conservatories and glasshouses for 

 market work 



Lecture rooms and laboratories form part of the college, 



* Courses in these subjects are given once in two years. 



