The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . very slight encouragement from Government,or otherwise, would lead to the addition of anextended course of vegetable economics to theordinary courses of some of our universities ortechnical colleges; especially this would be suit-able in such commercial centres as Glasgow,Liverpool, Birmingham, and Belfast, in whichthere is less opportunity for the development ofagriculture or forestry. This would lead to theproduction of a body of experts, trained up to acertain point which their degree or
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . very slight encouragement from Government,or otherwise, would lead to the addition of anextended course of vegetable economics to theordinary courses of some of our universities ortechnical colleges; especially this would be suit-able in such commercial centres as Glasgow,Liverpool, Birmingham, and Belfast, in whichthere is less opportunity for the development ofagriculture or forestry. This would lead to theproduction of a body of experts, trained up to acertain point which their degree or diploma wouldindicate, and such experts the Empire will becertain to require. It was in the full conviction of the importanceof this that, on a recent occasion, when an oppor-tunity was given me of stating the immediateneeds of my own department in Glasgow, Isuggested as the most pressing need the appoint-ment of a lecturer on vegetable economics, who FLORISTS FLOWERS. AMERICAN CHRYSANTHEMUM JUDGING. I beg to enclose the scaes of points for the judging of Chrysanthemums, arranged by_ the-. FlG. 32.—AGAVE AMERICANA, 25 FEET HIGH, IN THE GARDENS OF BROOKHILL, KINGSWEAR, THE RESIDENCE OF R. F. WILKINS, ESQ. {Photographed by Mr. Fitzherbert.) should also be the keeper of the botanical course such as he could give, added to those ofphysics, chemistry, and botany, together withcertain optional subjects, should form a curri-culum well worthy of a degree of , with aspecial diploma in vegetable economics. So farnothing has resulted. Chrysanthemum Society of America, thinking itwill interest your readers. You will observethe difference between this and the Englishmethod. Cut blooms are exhibited in vaseswith long stems, so that the foliage and stemcounts as well as the flower, and when six areexhibited in a vase together they are certainly 70 TEE GARDENERS1 CHRONICLE. [January 31, 1903. seen to advantage. Usually each variety is exhi-bited^ a separate vase, excepting in on
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