272 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXAMINATIONS IN HORTICULTURE, 1909, 



GENERAL EXAMINATION, 

 Wednesday, Apeil 21, 1909. 



Senioes : ovee 18 yeaes of age. 



One hundeed and fifty-one senior candidates entered, of whom 19, or 

 upwards of 12 per cent., obtained a place in the first class; 69, or upwards 

 of 45 per cent., gained a second class ; and 60, or nearly 40 per cent., 

 are placed in the third class. Three candidates only failed to satisfy the 

 examiners. 



In addition to these, four students resident in India entered for the 

 examination, the questions set by the other examiners being specially 

 adapted to India by the kind assistance of Lieut.-Colonel Prain, F.R.S., 

 and of these four candidates three obtained a second class and one failed 

 altogether. 



In their report to the Council the examiners (the Rev, Professor 

 George Henslow, M.A., V.M.H., &c, and Mr. James Douglas, V.M.H.), 

 lay stress on the fact that the answers to the questions on the "Principles 

 of Horticulture " were very satisfactory, especially those on Physiology, 

 which were certainly the most important, and which, they are glad to say, 

 were generally answered. The examiners also report that they were pleased 

 to find that several of the candidates were well instructed in the somewhat 

 new subjects of Ecology and Mendelism. 



It is necessary, however, to again urge the importance of candidates 

 studying the instructions printed at the head of their paper, before 

 beginning to answer the questions. Fourteen candidates, for example, 

 attempted to answer all the eight questions in " Operations and Practice," 

 instead of confining themselves (as they were instructed) to four, and it is 

 surely needless to say that four answered well are far better than eight 

 answered poorly. In some cases, again, candidates were so prolix in their 

 answers — had so much to say — that they only left themselves time to reply 

 to three questions instead of to four. It is therefore necessary to urge 

 again the importance of candidates practising conciseness in answering 

 questions, otherwise they waste their own time and the examiners' also. 

 The questions on " Practice " were for the most part very well answered. 



Junioes: undee 18 yeaes of age. 



Although the same questions were this year set to the Juniors as to 

 the Seniors, an entirely different standard was looked for in their replies. 



One hundred and forty junior candidates entered, of whom 17, or 

 upwards of 12 per cent., have been placed in the first class ; 41, or 30 per 



* See also p. 92. 



