390 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



WISLEY SCHOOL OF HORTICULTUEE. 



Ten students completed the two years' course of instruction at thi 

 Wisley School of Horticulture during the year 1911. Five sat £o 

 the Diploma Examination at the end of March and five at the end o 

 July. As in past years, the examination included written and practica 

 papers in the Principles and Operations of Horticulture, Mr. Joh] 

 Fraser, F.L.S., acting as external co-examiner with the Director an< 

 Superintendent. Each candidate was required, in addition, to presen 

 an essay on an approved horticultural subject, and collections of at leas 

 200 properly dried and localized British plants and of useful an 

 injurious insects. Marks were also credited for original observation 

 made during the year. Mr. James Hudson, V.M.H., kindly adjudji 

 cated upon the essays presented, those of Mr. Norman Johnson oi 

 " Birds of the Garden " and of Mr. A. E. Haarer on " Tomatf 

 Cultivation " being placed first. Seven candidates satisfied th 

 examiners, their names in order of merit being— 



1. Mr. H. E. Beale. 



I Mr. Fritz Bowyer. 

 ^•{Mr. A. E. Haarer. 



4. Mr. D. J. Powell. 



5. Mr. Norman Johnson. 



6. Mr. H. L. McCourt. 



7. Mr. P. S. Patrick. 



Eighteen students entered for the Society's General Examinatio; 

 and all were successful (p. 211), and one for the Teachers' Examin 

 tion, who was also successful (p. 219). 



The following prizes (books) were awarded on the results of tl 

 Diploma Examination : — 



Prizes provided by the income of the " Sutton Prize Fund " of- til 

 value of £1 10s., £1, and £1 to Mr. H. E. Beale, Mr. Fritz Bowy^' 

 and Mr, A. E. Haarer respectively. 



" Nicholson Prize," of the value of £2 2s. (provided by the incom 

 of the " Nicholson Memorial Fund "), for observations on the flo| 

 and fauna of Wisley and its neighbourhood, to Mr. Gordon W. Gibsol 



In February 1911, Mr. J. W. McCaig, a third-year student, l| 

 to take up a scholarship, tenable for three years, at the Imper| 

 College of Science, granted by an anonymous donor. 



