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Raking. Sowing, Transplanting and Thinning; Potting, Planting; Aspects, Positions 

 and Shelter ; Staking ; Earthing and Blanching, &c. 



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

 used, Layering, Division, Branch Pruning, Root Pruning; Old and Young Trees and 

 Bushes. Training. 



(6) Fruit Culture ; Open Air and Under Glass ; Small Fruits ; Apples and Pears ; 

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

 of Fruits, and Selection of- Varieties. 



(7) Vegetable Culture : Tubers and Roots ; 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. 



Books Recommended foe Study. 



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 : — 



"Agricultural Botany," by John Percival, F.L.S. (Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street, 

 W.C.), 7s. U. 



•'Manual of Agricultural Botany," by Dr. A. B. Frank, translated by J. W. 

 Patterson (Blackwood, 37 Paternoster Row, E.C.), 2s. Qd. 



" Elements of Agriculture," by W. Fream, LL.D. (John Murray, 50a Albemarle 

 Street, W.), 3s. M. 



" Botany for Beginners," by the Rev. Prof. G. Henslow (Stanford, 12-14 Long 

 Acre, W.C.), 4s. Qd. 



"Elementary Botany," by J. W. Oliver (Blackie & Son, 50 Old Bailey, E.C.), 2s. 

 " Elements of Botany," by Francis Darwin, F.R.S. (Clay & Sons, Ave Maria Lane, 

 E.C.), 4s. 6d. 



"Primer of Botany," by Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.L (Macmillan & Co., St. Martin's 

 Street, W.C.), Is. 



" Structural Botany " (Flowering Plants), by Dr. D. H. Scott (A. & C. Black, Soho 

 Square, W.C.), 3s. M. 



"The Treasury of Botany" (Longmans, 39 Paternoster Row, E.C.), 15s. 



"The Chemistry of the Garden," by H. H. Cousins (Macmillan & Co.), Is. 



" Diseases of Plants," by Prof. H. Marshall Ward, F.R.S. (S.P.C.K., Northumber- 

 land Avenue, W.C.), 2s. M. 



"Manual and Dictionary of Flowering Plants and Ferns," by J. C. Willis, M.A. 

 (Clay & Sons), 10s. Qd. 



" The Forcing Book," by Prof. L. H. Bailey (Macmillan & Co.), 4s. 



"Profitable Fruit Growing," by J. Wright. V.M.H. (" City Press " Office, Alders- 

 gate, E.C.), Is. 3d. 



" The Principles of Fruit Growing," by Prof. L. H. Bailey (Macmillan & Co.), 5s. 



" Thompson's Gardeners' Assistant," New Edition byW. Watson, 6 vols. (Gresham 

 Publishing Co., 34 Southampton Street, Strand), £2 8s. 



" Garden Flowers and Plants," by J. Wright, V.M.H. (Macmillan & Co.), Is. 



" Paxton's Calendar of Garden Operations" ("Gardeners' Chronicle" Office, 

 41 Wellington Street, W.C.), l\d. 



"The Art of Grafting and Budding," by C. Baltet (Crosby Lock wood, Stationers' 

 Hall Court, E.C.), 2s. Qd. 



"Primer of Horticulture," by J. Wright, V.M.H. (Macmillan & Co.), Is. 



"Farm and Garden Insects," by W. Somerville, D.Sc. (Macmillan & Co.), Is. 



" The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening," b H. E. Milner, V.M.H., 21s. 



