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proper execution, and to turn them out practical gar- 

 deners and capable, observant characters. 



The forenoon, till the pause for breakfast, is kept 

 exclusively for practical work, which daily amounts to 

 five or six hours. The field of activity is the nine-acre 

 garden of the " Breymann Educational Institute for Young 

 Girls," with pleasure-grounds, greenhouses, forcing-beds, 

 vegetable-fields, nursery, etc. The opportunity to learn 

 bee-culture is also given. 



The theoretical instruction serves to explain and so to 

 support the practical work. It comprises : 



1. Botany. — Plant life. 



2. Elementary chemistry, for the better understanding 

 of the transformations of matter, instruction in manures, 

 analysis of soils. 



3. Fruit and vegetable culture. 



4. Flower growing. 



5. Arboriculture. 



6. Forcing. 



7. Zoology (the foes of plants and their destruction). 



8. Garden design. 



Theoretical instruction is given every afternoon from 

 one to two hours. Thursday afternoons are at the students' 

 disposal. Holidays are in winter from the 15th of December 

 till the 15th of January During this time the institution 

 is closed. As an exception, if specially desired, leave is 

 granted for a fortnight at whichever date suits best, 

 viz., 1st to 15th April, July, or October ; in those weeks 

 theoretical instruction is not given. 



Sti'pulatim'>8. — 1, Good education ; 2, excellent health ; 



