192 GAEDENING FOR WOMEN 



students the second year, 70 marks per month. This 

 must be paid three months in advance. 



AUGUSTE-FORSTER INSTITUTION, OBERZWEHREN 

 (KREIS CASSEL) 



The Kassel Society for the Education of Women has 

 provided in the Auguste-Forster Institute a country school 

 where young girls and women may obtain a thorough 

 training in three different departments : viz., horticulture, 

 domestic economy, and poultry and pig-rearing, etc. 

 The instruction, combining theoretical information and 

 practical work, is given by accomplished female teachers. 

 Six to eight scholars can be taken for each depart- 

 ment. 



The duration and direction of the course are regulated 

 by the result aimed at. The time of study in each depart- 

 ment lasts a year ; scholars, who intend to make use of 

 their training in their own home, can take a half-year's 

 course. 



Students are not permitted to take the different courses 

 concurrently. Those who successfully pass an examination, 

 held at the end of the year's course, receive a certificate of 

 proficiency. These certificates are of special importance 

 to those who wish to earn their living in the gardener's 

 calling, or as housekeepers. The year's course and 

 certificate are also valuable to those who become teachers 

 of domestic economy in rural housekeeping schools, as 

 the regulation examination for domestic economy does not 

 include such special country subjects as horticulture, 

 poultry-rearing, etc. For those who have already attended 



