88 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXAMINATION IN HORTICULTURE.— GENERAL. 

 April i, 1914. 



One hundred and eighty- six candidates entered for the Society's 

 Senior General Examination on April i, 1914. Six of these, however, 

 did not present themselves. 



The Examiners, the Rev. Prof. G. Henslow, M.A., V.M.H., and 

 Mr. J. Hudson, V.M.H., report that of the Senior candidates obtain- 

 ing a place in the Pass List, 9 or about 5 per cent, were placed in the 

 first class ; in the second class, 36 candidates, or 20 per cent. ; and 

 in the third class, 122 candidates, or 68 per cent. 



Thirteen candidates failed to show a sufficiently high standard 

 of knowledge to appear in the List. 



One hundred and eighteen candidates entered for the Junior 

 Section of the General Examination. Of these one was absent ; i 

 obtained a first class ; 6, or 5 per cent., a second class ; 51, or 43 per 

 cent., a third class ; and 31, or 26 per cent., a fourth class; leaving 

 28 candidates unsuccessful. 



Several candidates misunderstood the meaning of " respiration," 

 and gave descriptions of either transpiration or assimilation. It is 

 very necessary for an understanding of plant activity to discriminate 

 clearly between these functions. 



The Examiners were particularly pleased with the answers of 

 some candidates on certain questions. These will be written to 

 individually. 



It is a pity that candidates are not more careful to follow the 

 rules laid down for the conduct of the Examination. For example, 

 several answered more questions in either Section A or B than were 

 asked for, and, of course, the surplus answers had to be ignored. 



The addition to an answer of such communications as " Time up " 

 etc. is far from desirable, and at once leads the Examiner to expect 

 poor answers. Indeed, it is almost invariably the rule that such 

 words are inserted by those who have written the least amount, 

 and they tend to call attention to a candidate's weakness in his 

 subject. 



W. WiLKS, Secretary. 



