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B. — ^THEORETICAL INSTRUCTION 



Pomology : Breeding, pruning, forcing, knowledge of 

 species. Vegetable culture and forcing. Mower propaga- 

 tion and hot-houses, forcing. Forestry : Description and 

 crossing of the most important trees for landscape gar- 

 dening. Landscape gardening. Legal knowledge. Book- 

 keeping and correspondence. Botany : Morphology, 

 anatomy, physiology, systems, geography of plants, 

 plant diseases. Zoology : Animals useful and hurtful to 

 horticulture. Chemistry : Soils and manures. Geometry 

 and surveying. 



Theoretical instruction is given by a head-gardener, 

 a highly-educated scientific master, and by the principal 

 herself. The head-gardener instructs in the practical 

 department with the help of a basket-maker and joiner 

 for those branches. Admission to the course is in the 

 beginning of April and October. 



As a means of judging the proficiency of our scholars 

 a small exhibition of garden products, and sketches and 

 designs of gardens, is held yearly in the institution, about 

 the end of September or beginning of October. An inspec- 

 tion of the exhibition, and also of the garden, is willingly 

 permitted to anyone interested. 



At the close of the second year the scholars receive 

 a certificate after examination. 



CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION 



Scholars must have passed through the first class in a 

 secondary girls' school, and have a healthy, robust con- 

 stitution. Age not over thirty. A medical certificate 



