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JOUENAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



(5) Propagation, Elementary Principles : Cuttings, Budding and Grafting, Stocks 



used, Layering, Division, Branch Pruning, Boot Pruning; Old and Young 

 Treefs and Bushes. Training. 



(6) Fruit Culture : Open Air and Under Glass ; Small Fruits ; Apples a,nd Pears ; 



Stone Fruits ; Gathering and Storing ; Packing and Marketing. General 

 Knowledge of Fruits, and Selection of Varieties. 



(7) Vegetable Culture : Tubers and Boots; Green Vegetables; Fruits and Seeds; 



Rotation of Crops, and Selection of Varieties. 



(8) Flower Culture, Outside and Under Glass. 



(9) Manures and their Application. 



(10) Improvement of Plants by Cross-breeding, Hybridisation and Selection. 



(11) Arboriculture : Trees and Shrubs and their Culture. 



(12) Insect and Fungus Pests : Prevention and Treatment. 



3. Students and young gardeners not having had the advantage of 

 attending Lectures, but wishing to present themselves at some one of the 

 Centres for Examination, might with advantage consult some of the 

 following works : — 



" Primer of Botany," bv Sir J. D. Hooker, Primer of Horticulture," by J. Wright, 

 K.C.S.I. (Macmillan & Co., 30 Bed- V.M.H. (Macmillan & Co.) Is. 



ford Street, W.C.) Is. u physiology of Plants," by Dr. Paul 



Elementary Botany," by J. W. Oliver. Sorauer. (Longmans, Green & Co., 



(Blackie & Sons, 50 Old Bailey, E.C.) 39 Paternoster Row, E.C.) 9s. 



^ . „ , , , "Chemistry of the Garden," by H. 



"Botany for Begmners, ' by Professor Cousins. (Macmillan <fe Co.) Is. 



Henslow. (Stanford.) 2s. (id. ^. , „ , „ , „ 



-r-i 1 T-v- i.- M V. n r XT 1 " Diseases of Plants," by H. Marshall 



"Floral Dissections," by Prof. Henslow. , /urjnij- xr^,.fi, 1 i 



o f 1 . A Ward. (S.P.C.K., Northumberland 



Avenue, W.C.) 2s. (jd. 



(Stanford.) 4s. | 



"How to Study Wild Flowers," by Pro- ' ^ ^ ^ . ^ . „ ^ -r ,t. • , 

 fessor Henslow. (R.T.S.) 2s. (yd. " Profitable Fruit Growing ' by J. Wright, 



cii. i. 1 T> 4. )> /-ni • T)i * \ V.M.H. (Journal of Horticulture, 



" Structural Botany (r lowering I'lants , ^ ^ 4. m u -ri n \ 



1- V TT o 4.} I K s> "ri t>i 1 12 Mitre Court Chambers, E.C.) 



by Dr. D. H. Scott. (A. & C. Black, ' ' 



Soho Square, W.C.) 3s. (jd. 

 "Plant Life," by Dr. M. T. Masters, " Art of Budding and Grafting," by C. 



F.R.S. (Vinton & Co., 9 New Bridge Ba.\tet (Crosby Lockwood, Sta- 



Street,E.C.) 2s. 6d. tioners' Hall Court, E.C.) 2s. Gd. 



"Plant Breeding," by L. H. Bailey. "Pruning," by L. H. Bailey. (Mac- 



(Macmillan \- Co.) 4s. millan & Co.) 5s. 



" Elements of Agriculture," by W. Fream, "Natural History of Plants." 2 vols. 



LL.D. (J. Murray, Albemarle Street, | By Kerner and Oliver. (Blackie & 



W.) 3s. Gd. I Son.) 50s. 



4. The Examination will be held simultaneously in as many different 

 centres in Great Britain and Ireland as circumstances may demand. 

 The time allowed for the Examination is 2J hours, the hour fixed being 

 generally from 7 to 9.30 p.m. 



5. The Examination will for the most part be based on the above 

 Outline Syllabus of "Elementary Principles of Horticultural Operations 

 and Practice." 



6. 300 Marks will be given as a maximum. Candidates gaining 200 

 Marks and over will be placed in the First Class. Those gaining 150 

 to 200 Marks will be placed in the Second Class, and those gaining 

 between 100 and 150 will be placed in the Third Class. Candidates 

 failing to obtain 100 Marks will not be classed. 



7. The Royal Horticultural Society will award a Silver Gilt Medal to 



