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to be still held in anticipation. A completer knowledge of garden 

 practice and the reasons for it ; the values of phosphatic and nitrogenous 

 manures, their comparative cost, and the quantities required ; the art of 

 curves and the power to express them neatly on paper ; arithmetical 

 calculations for land measures and simple cash computations — such 

 things as these, added to a more intensive knowledge of gardening 

 specialized for public parks, are necessary to raise the employees to the 

 standard of really first-class craftsmen whose skill is to find expression in 

 the gardens which they serve. 



The higher places gained by most of the old candidates in the lists 

 should be an encouragement to the less successful to persevere diligently 

 with their work and try again next year. 



It should perhaps be put on record that there is absolutely no difference 

 of merit whatsoever in being placed in Division A or in Division B. 

 A first Class in one is as good as a first Class in the other. The two 

 Divisions are only kept up for the convenience of certain public authorities. 



C. E. Fielder, 

 Owen Thomas, 



John W. Odell, 

 W. Crump, 



Edward White, 

 W. Wiles, 



DIVISION A. 



Class I. 



1. Gibson, E., Clissold Park Lodge. 



2. Western, Jos., Island Gardens, Poplar. 



8. Pogmore, C, 7 Anerley Vale, Upper Norwood. 



4. Parish, Henry Geo., 39 Canterbury Grove, West Norwood. 



Class II. 



1. Brice, John Gordon, 14 Constantine Road, Hampstead. 



2. Drage, Edward, Harford Street, Mile End. 



3. Marshall, Charles, Avery Hill, Eltham. 



4. Hodge, William Albert, White Lodge, Victoria Park. 



5. Faulkner, Frank, 54 Hargrave Park, Upper Holloway. 



6. Philpott, Ernest Victor, 59a Emu Road, Battersea. 



Class III. 



1. Hurley, James, 141 Trundley's Road, Deptford. 



2. Collop, Thomas, 29 Saltwoocl Grove, Walworth. 



3. Scrase, Edward, 68 Idmiston Road, Stratford. 



4. Chapman, John, 41 Finland Road, Brockley. 



5. Lambourne, C, 72 Clive Road, Dulwich, S.E. 



6. Gray, William John, 24 New Church Road, Camberwell. 



