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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



June 1, 1912. 



It prepares its students in science, teclini- 

 cal knowledge, and art of all laranclies of 

 horticulture, as well as of colonial horticul- 

 ture. A not unimiportant task of the institu- 

 tion is to interest agriculturists in the de- 

 velopment of fruit culture in the mother 

 country, as well as to cater for the wishes 

 of amateur gardeners. 



The full course lasts two years; date of 

 admission, October 1. 



In order to be admitted, applicants must 

 show that they have gained the certificate 

 for the one-year's voluntary military service, 

 or that they have had the full preparation 

 in science necessary for obtaining the above- 

 mentioned certifi^cate. Also, the students 

 must prove that he has had four years' prac- 

 tical horticultural experience. It is desir- 

 able that of these four years at least one 

 has been spent at a nursery or market 

 gardening. 



Dahlem has four courses of one year each. 



liberty to extend their studies still further, 

 and to attend lectures at the Agricultural 

 College and the University as non-matricu- 

 lated students if they satisfy the conditions 

 of these institutions. 



Further, sliort courses for ladies and gen- 

 tlemen are arranged as required^ e.g., in 

 the spring, a course for amateur gardeners ; 

 in late summer, a course on fruit and vege- 

 table preserving, etc. In addition to its 

 museum collection and material for scienti- 

 fic instruction, the college has a department 

 for the utilisation of fruit, an experimental 

 department for plant physiology, with a 

 house for observing the growth of roots, 

 four large hothouses, three vineries, one 

 peach -house, one mushroom-house, a "talut" 

 or shelter-wall for peaches, ten large walls 

 for better-class or dessert- fruit, and grounds 

 partly laid out in ornmental beds and 

 partly devoted to flower, fruit, and vege- 

 table culture, which altogether, and wiHh the 



This college combines the following depart- 

 ments for instruction: — 



(a) One year's lower course for students for 

 viticulture and wine-making, fruit culture 

 and landscape gardening. It is necessary to 

 have attended an elementary school in order 

 to be admitted; furtther, a two years* prac- 

 tical apprenticeship is necessary. 



(6) A two. years' higher course for students 

 in the same subjects. In order to attend 

 this course it is necessary to have reached 

 the standard of the fourth class of a Secon- 

 dary School for Classics Gymnasium, or of 

 a Eealgymnasium or Oberrealschule, or the 

 Secunda of a Progymnasium, or of a Real- 



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This course affords 



schule. 



(c) A periodic course 

 opportunity to tihe proprietors 01 vineyards 

 and orchards to perfect themselves in the 

 growing of vine and fruit, as well as in wine- 

 making. 



The third Royal Horticultural College at 



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BRA^SSO-CATTLHYA THK KING, 



Flowers purple-rose and orange. F.C.C., R.H.S. (I.H.E.), May 22. Lieut.-Col. Sir George Holford, Westonbirt. 



The first, being a general course, is obliga- 

 tory for students attending the college. At 

 the conclusion of this course there is an 

 examination which must be passed before 

 one can attend the other three courses. 

 Applicants who wish to be admitted at once 

 to Courses 2, 3, or 4 (Course 2 being for the 

 art of garden making. Course 3 being for 

 fruit culture. Course 4 being for floricul- 

 ture) must prove that they possess the know- 

 ledge comprised in Course 1, either by 

 suitable certificates from other horticultural 



training schools or by passing the above- 

 mentioned examination. The Courses 2, 3, 

 and 4 are optional. Applicants who do not 

 wish to devote themselves exclusively to the 

 one or to the other course are allowed to 

 attend lectures on different subjects in the 

 three courses. Every six months, however, 

 they are obliged t-o submit to the Board of 

 Directors a list of the classes they wish to 

 attend. At the end of each of the above 

 courses there is an examination, for which 

 a certificate is given. The srtudents are at 



demonstration fields, is nearly nineteen acres 

 in area. 



In addition to the seven lecture halls the 

 College has two large rooms for drawing, 

 which are daily at the disposal of the stu- 

 dents till 9 p.m. 



Eoyal favour has graciously placed the 

 Royal Gardens at Potsdam at the disposal of 

 the College for educational purposes, while 

 the neighbouring institution of the Royal 

 Botanical Gardens and museums of Berlin 

 University, and the Biological Institution 

 and the experimental fields of the Agricul- 

 tural College afford ample opportunity for 

 instruction and demonstration. 



I 'have emphasised the points in which the 

 Dahlem Horticultural College differs from the 

 other Royal Horticultural Colleges in Ger- 

 manv so I need only briefly describe the re- 

 maining institutions. 



The Royal Horticultural College at Geisen- 

 heim in the Rheingau opened in the autumn 

 of 1872; managing director, Geh. Reg. Rat 

 Prof. Dr. Wortmann. 



Proskau is under 

 Director Schindler. 

 Th 



the manage 



ent <^ 



horticulture, especially vegetable ana ^ 

 )y Ifceory and by practice 



purpose the college includes tne 



. both 



this 



and 



lowing courses: — i 

 Two years' course. The pupils mu^^^ 

 seventeen years of age, and have r 

 the standard of the Obertertia ^r 10^^ 

 class of a Gymnasium or of an y^'^^ 

 schule, or else have passed an examinan^ 

 which sufficient knowledge of matttiein ^ 



German composition is show 

 sume the lectures being understood. 



Besides the abov^mentioned courses a ^ 

 course for teachers in public schools ife 

 annually in the spring and autumn, anu ^ 

 fourteen days. The same is the ^^^i^^ L ^^fi 

 course for the men in charge of 

 roadside-grown fruit trees. A P 

 course for amateur orchardists last six ^.^^ 

 The course for amateur gardeners s 

 only once a year, either in June or Jui^, 



