April  9,  1903. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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Horticultural  Trainiug  Schools  iu  Great  Britain. 
The  followin<i:  list  is  not  quite  complete,  but  it  comprises  the 
chief  places  where  horticulture  is  systematically  taught  to 
students : — 
East  of  Scotland  College  of  Agriculttjbe  was  founded  in 
1901,  and  took  over  the  work  of  the  Edinburgh  School  of  Rural 
Economy,  established  in  1894,  and  which  ceased  in  1901  to  exi.st. 
The  counties  associated  with  the  Edinburgh  College  are  Berwick, 
Clackmannan,  East  Lothian,  Fife,  Forfar,  Kinross,  Midlothian, 
Peebles,  Perth,  Roxburgb  Selkirk,  West  Lothian,  and  Edin¬ 
burgh  City.  The  horticultural  instructor  is  Mr.  William  Wil¬ 
liamson.  The  address  of  the  college  is  George  IV.  Bridge,  Edin¬ 
burgh. 
Essex  County  Council  Technical  Laboratories,  Chelms¬ 
ford. — This  school  was  .started  eight  years  ago,  to  run  in  three 
courses  of  three  weeks  each,  and  one  of  four  weeks,  correspond¬ 
ing  to  the  four  seasons. 
Holmes  Chapel  Agricultural  and  Horticultural  School, 
Cheshire. — The  school  is  a  commodious  building,  situated  in  a 
healthy,  agreeable,  and  commanding  position,  about  ten  minute.s’ 
walk  from  Holmes  Chapel  Station.  It  is  surrounded  by  a  com¬ 
pact  farm  of  about  100  acres,  of  a  rich  loam,  upon  a  subsoil  of 
sand  and  clay.  The  school  is  cajiable^  of  accommodating  sixty 
students,  with  the  requisite  staff.  A  new  schoolroom,  laboratory, 
lecture  room,  and  workshop  have  been  built,  and  the  whole  made 
replete  with  the  apparatus  and  nece.s.sary  conveniences  and  essen¬ 
tials  of  a  large  technical  establishment.  Adjoining  the  .school 
are  extensive  gardens^  covering  seven  acres,  with  greenhouses, 
frames,  &c.,  and  a  con.siderable  portion  specially  devoted  to  fruit 
culture.  There  is  a  full  teaching  staff,  and  the  principal  is  Mr. 
William  Angus,  B.Sc.  (Aberdeen).  It  lately  received  its  first 
Government  grant — a  sum  of  £200. 
Horticultural  College,  Swanlea^,  Kent. — This  is'  now 
devoted  to  girls  and  women  entirely.  It  was  founded  about 
1888.  We  have  frequently  referred  to  it,  and  described  its  well- 
situated  gardens  and  grounds. 
“Lady  Warwick”  Hostel,  Reading. — This,  like  Swanley,  is 
for  women  gardeners,  and  we  have  furnished  ample  notices  in  the 
past. 
Reading  College. — Reading  is  exceedingly  well  situated  for 
having  an  agricultural  and  horticultural  school  and  experimental 
garden.  Mr.  W.  H.  Patterson  was  lately  appointed  to  the  super¬ 
intendence  of  the  garden,  and  students  are  taught  under  him. 
Royal  Botanic  Society’s  School  of  Gardening,  Regent’s 
Park,  London. — The  horticultural  school  has  been  carried  on  in 
the  gardens  for  five  years.  They  have  endeavoured  tO'  teach  the 
artistic  and  educational  value  of  horticulture,  but  have  not  been 
able  to  take  up  the  commercial  side.  They  began  with  nine 
students  and  now  have  thirty-five,  including  several  ladies.  About 
£2,000  has  been  spent  on  the  school,  towards  which  tlie  Technical 
Education  Bbard  had  contributed  £850.  Positions  have  been 
easily  found  for  all  the  .students,  a.s  many  of  the  Fellow, s  of  the 
society  have  large  gardens.  Eventually  a  conservatory  will  be 
attached  to  the  botanical  and  horticultural  laboratory,  which 
was  opened  but  a,  week  ago.  A  ladies’  health  class  is  being  formed 
to  give  ladies  the  opportunity  of  practical  gardening.  The  head 
gardener  is  Mr.  F.  W.  Hawes. 
Royal  Horticultural  Society’s  Experimental  Gardens, 
Chiswick. — A  number  of  studentships  are  maintainedi  by  the 
R.H.S.,  and  a  good  general  knowledge  of  practical  gardening  is 
imparted  under  the  Superintendent,  Mr.  S.  T.  Wright,  the 
students  also  having  the  advantage  of  attending  the  fortnightly 
meetings  and  other  exhibitions  of  the  Society,  and  they  are 
within  walking  distance  of  the  Royal  Botanical  Gardens  at  Kew. 
School  of  Gardening  for  Women,  Shield’s  Park  Nursera', 
Inveresk,  near  Edinburgh.  — This  school  was  founded  by  Miss 
Barker  and  Miss  Morrison  two  years  ago,  both  of  whom  have 
graduated  at  Swanley,  and  the  school  is  run  much  on  the  same 
lines. 
The  Women’s  Agricultural  and  Horticultural  Inter¬ 
national  Union,  of  which  the  hon.  secretary  is  Miss  T.  W.  Powell, 
West  Mount,  Guildford,  gives  advice  as  to  training  and  disposal 
of  garden  produce. 
West  of  Scotland  Agricultural  College,  Glasgow. — Horti¬ 
culture,  we  believe,  is  taught  here,  as  at  the  Edinburgh  school, 
but  we  have  no  knowledge  of  its  inner  working. 
The  Wa"e  College,  Kent,  is  almost  purely  agricultural. 
we 
Thereis  aladie.s’  horticultural  school  at  Springhall.  Sawbridg 
worth,  Herts,  training  being  given  by  Mrs.  Dutton,  and  u 
believe  there  is  another  school  in  Devomshire. 
The  Women’s  London  Gardening  Association,  G2.  Lower 
Sloane  Street,  S.W.,  gives  course.s  of  training  to  women  wlm  wish 
to  become  jobbing  gardeners,  or  who  desire  to  keep  their  on  n 
gardens. 
- <«♦■>  — 
Young  Gardeners’  Domain.* 
in  Insight  to  Bothydom. 
It  is  no  small  pleasure  to  find  that  there  is  at  lea.st  one  jwrson 
in  the  world  or  horticulture  who  is  enabled  to  see  bothy  hf& 
I  have  seen  it,  and  finds  it,  just  as  I  hav'e  found  it,  a  fitting 
medium  for  leading  the  weak  and  wavering  on  tlie  downw^d 
path.  “  B.  U.”  is  to  be  admired  for  his  strong  character.  He 
has  evidently  escaped  the  wily  meshes  which  the  average  bothy 
hand  spreads  around  his  newly-arrived  victim.  He  cmne,  he  .saw, 
and  has  conquered.  But  how  many  come,  see,  and  to  be  con¬ 
quered.  I  am  afraid  the  majority  are  in  that  cat  ego 
everything  points  to  prove  that  it  is  so.  A  young  man  s  worth 
can  be  easily  inferred  from  two  very  important  things,  namely, 
the  class  of  associates  he  selects  and  the  literature  he  reads,  ihe 
chief  and  the  morally  culpable  “  paterfamilias  to  the  young  bot  y 
lad,  as  a  rule,  cares  not  a  straw  wdiat  the  .standard  of  virtue  in  his 
proteges  is  as  long  as  they  perform  a  certain  .set  of  duties  bo 
far,  they  are  related  to  each  other  much  after  the  fashion  of  t  e 
South  American  planter  and  his  dusky  bondsman  before  the 
glorious  dawn  of  emancipation.  To  care  for  the  culture  of  the 
nobler  qualities  of  their  assistants  would  be  detracting  from  their 
dignity — a  dignity,  forsooth,  which  few  of  them  indeed  possess. 
Many  of  them,  however,  exhibit  an  extraordinary  talent  for  the 
accumulation  of  a  species  of  ignorance  which  they  too  often  mis¬ 
take  for  knowledge.  Doubtless  this  weakness  is  largely  due  to 
the  early  influences  of  the  rude  life  of  the  bothy,  especially  v hen 
little  moral  force  was  utilised  to  combat  thein.  B.  L^.  .s  closing 
remarks  are  full  of  wise  coun.sel.  He  .should  think  twice  about 
the  matter,  he  that  is  about  to  enter  into  the  inglorious  life  of 
bothydom.  This  is  the  black  spot  of  gardening,  and  must  sooner 
or  later  be  removed. — Grades. 
After  reading  the  letter  by  ‘  B.  U.”  in  the  “Young  Gar¬ 
dener’s  Domain,”  I  would  like  to  say  a  few  words  on  my  expe¬ 
rience  of  bothy  life.  I  have  had  several  years  in  bothies— where 
there  have  been  as  many  as  eleven  of  us — and  I  have  never  met 
with  the  treatment  mentioned  by  “  B.  I  .,”  and  neither  have  I 
seen  any  of  the  younger  ones  treated  so.  I  have  always  mund 
my  felloiv  workmates  to  be  sociable  and  ready  to  do  another  a 
good  turn,  so  that  to  me  it  comes  as  a  great  surprise  to  hear  of 
such  things  being  done,  and. I  would  like  to  aisk  where  the  gar 
dener  was,  to  allow  such  things  to  Cccur?  One  other  question  1 
would  ask.  Does  “  B.  U.”  think  a  gardener  requires  no  recreation 
or  amusement  ?  If  so,  let  me  remind  him  of  the  old  saying,  ^ 
work  and  no  play,”  &c.  Perhaps  others  of  your  readers  a.s  well 
as  myself  would  like  to  know  the  extent  of  B.  U.  s  life  m 
bothy,  and  also  -what  is  the  position  that  he  now  ho  ds. 
A  Foreaian. 
Plant  and  Tree  Labels. 
There  is  no  greater  necessity  amongst  horticulturist.s  in  the 
resent  day  than  a  really  good,  cheap  and  permanent  labe  .  one 
lat  is  ready  printed,  or  embossed,  which  can  be  placed  on  a  ivose, 
•uit  tree,  plant,  or  .shrub  when  it  leaves  the  nursery,  and  reinain 
lere,  as  it  should,  for  many  years,  a  not  too  conspicuous  object, 
ut  easily  found  on  the  plant  when  required.  In  the  Idea 
ibel  we  find  these  requirements  fulfilled.  How  often,  to  the 
lagrin  of  the  amateur  gardener,  does  the  ordinary  nurseryman  s 
aper  label,  with  pencilled  name,  disappear,  perhaps  through 
eglect,  but  more  often  owing  to  the  weather,  and  the  na,me  of 
le  Rose  or  fruit  tree,  plant,  or  shrub  is  lort.  Mr.  C  liandler,  of 
le  Devon  Rosery  and  Fruit  Farm,  Ltd.,  Torquay,  has  sent  u.s 
lecimens  of  his  new  patent  “Ideal  ”  labels,  and  these  commend 
iieiiLselves  to  u.s  in  every  way.  A  picture  of  one  of  the  types 
;  civen  on  this  page.  These  labels  are  made  thinly  of  copper, 
nd  can  be  had  with  names  already  embos.sed  (nurserymen  can 
ave  the  names  of  their  firms  on  the  same  label),  or  plain-faced 
ibels  can  be  obtained,  upon  which  any  name  can  ea-sily  be  written 
ith  a  blunt-pointed  pencil  or  stick.  Our  illustration  show.s  one 
f  the  latter  type.  Wire  holders  for  use  in  borders  or  pot. s  can 
Iso  be  suppli^,  and  as  the  labels  cost  only  a  id.  to  Id.  apiece, 
is  highly  probable  that  they  will  find  a  very  ready  demajul. 
*  The  editor  invites  young  gardeners  who  are  readeis  to  contribute  to  the 
omain,  and  he  will  at  all  times  endeavour  to  ensure  tlie  publication  of  their 
tters. 
