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usuaily taken some years in advance. The first two ladies 

 came on July 1, 1898, and eighteen in all have passed 

 through up to 1907. Of these, the following are at present 

 actively employed as follows : — 



Lucy Douglas, County Council Instructor in Horticul- 

 ture, Co. Cavan ; Jane Langley, gardening, laying out 

 gardens, giving advice, good employment in Co. Waterf ord ; 

 Katherine Kinnear, market and nursery gardening in 

 Scotland ; Rose Pollock, private secretary and assistant 

 to F. W. Moore, Esq., Botanic Gardens, Dublin ; Jean 

 Rogers, working as head gardener ; Christina Carlyon, 

 instructor in horticultural college in South Africa ; Jane 

 Garner, working her own garden, and botanical and horti- 

 cultural teacher in Dublin ; Emmeline Crocker, head 

 gardener over a large garden in Cornwall ; May Crosbie, 

 working her own garden. The students can obtain com- 

 fortable and cheap rooms in Dublin, in order to attend 

 daily at the gardens. 



The London County Council has organised classes for 

 gardeners, which ladies may attend at 



THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL NORWOOD TECHNICAL 

 INSTITUTE, KNIGHT'S HILL, WEST NORWOOD 



The following are the syllabuses : 



BOTANY (theoretical AND PRACTICAL), 5s. PER COURSE 



Stage I. — (Elementary) : Fridays, 9 — 10 ; Practical Class, 

 7.30—9. Stage II. (Advanced) : Fridays, 6.30—7.30 ; 

 Practical Clas6, 7.30—9 



