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Lessons per week. 

 First Second 

 term. term. 



Cultivation of vegetables . 

 Orchard and nursery gardening . 

 Laying out of gardens and cultivation 



ornamental plants 

 Forcing of useful plants 

 Horticultural botany 

 Pathology of plants . 

 Horticultural zoology 

 Agricultural chemistry 

 Comparing of garden plans 

 Practical horticulture 



of 



THE EXAMINATIONS COMPRISE I — 



Part I. [after the first yearns course) 

 Physics and meteorology, oral ; chemistry, oral, 

 practical and written ; knowledge of soils, oral ; botany, 

 oral ; surveying and levelling, practical drawing. 



Part II. (after the second year'^s course) 

 {No one is admitted to Part II. who has not passed satis- 

 factorily in Part I.) 

 General horticulture, oral and written ; cultivation of 

 vegetables, oral and written ; orchard and nursery garden- 

 ing, oral and written ; laying out of gardens, etc., oral and 

 written ; forcing of useful plants, oral ; horticultural 

 botany, oral ; pathology of plants, oral ; horticultural 

 zoology, oral ; agricultural chemistry, practical and 

 written ; composing of garden plans; 



