EXAMINATION IN IIORTICULTUIIE. 
EXAMINATION IN HORTIOULTUEE. 
1900. 
The Annual Examination in tlie Principles and Practice of Horti- 
culture was held on April 25 : 236 papers were sent in. 
Three hundred marks were allotted as a maximum, and all candidates 
who obtained 200 Jmarks and upwards were placed in the First Class. 
The total number was 141, or nearly 60 per cent. 
The highest number of marks (300) was awarded to Miss E. Welthin 
Winlo, from the Horticultural College, Swanley, Kent. 
Those who secured 150 and less than 200 marks were placed in the 
Second Class. The number was 61, or nearly 26 per cent. 
Those who obtained 100 and upwards were ranked in the Third 
Class. The number was 30, or nearly 13 per cent. 
Four candidates, obtaining less than 100 marks, were not placed. 
Comparing the results with those of the last two years * the entry 
has greatly increased ; viz., from 190 in 1898, and 165 in 1899, to 236 in 
1900. It will be observed ^that the percentage of the First and Third 
Classes is much higher than in previous years. 
The Second has remained about stationary. 
The questions were, as a rule, very satisfactorily answered. We 
observe, as might be expected, that the students from colleges are in 
some cases better prepared in the elementary principles than in practical 
horticulture ; many were unacquainted with the importance and meaning 
of Respirationjin plants. 
The candidates were well versed in Practical Horticulture, and 
showed greater knowledge in minor details than heretofore. Many of 
them in their answers [branched off into extraneous matters not re- 
quired in reply to the question at all. It is important that they should 
keep strictly to the text_of the~questions. 
Geokge Henslow, 
James Douglas, 
See Journal of the R.H.S., vol. xxiii. p. G4. 
James Douglas, } 
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