The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ind room in this issue for the details ofthis scheme, but we hope to do so on a futureoccasion. The system of education which seems to bepreferred by the County Councils is the telling-off competent lecturers to visit the rural dis- holding of good systems of cultivation and bytheir denouncement of bad ones. Great advan-tage will also arise from the practical demonstra-tion of good methods of pruning, or other opera-tions, and by the bringing home to the mind ofthe cultivator that, as a rule, it is as
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ind room in this issue for the details ofthis scheme, but we hope to do so on a futureoccasion. The system of education which seems to bepreferred by the County Councils is the telling-off competent lecturers to visit the rural dis- holding of good systems of cultivation and bytheir denouncement of bad ones. Great advan-tage will also arise from the practical demonstra-tion of good methods of pruning, or other opera-tions, and by the bringing home to the mind ofthe cultivator that, as a rule, it is as easy togrow good (that is, suitable) sorts as bad ones—a lesson which greatly needs enforcing. Turning to the third mode of improving hor-ticulture, we must allude in passing to thehorticultural colleges for the education of ahigher class of pupils, and for the training ofteachers — a most important function. Weneed say nothing at present of the very fewexisting institutions in this country, and wedesignedly omit mention of the strictly agri-cultural colleges, but we may point to the. Fig. 66.—the parterre : Missouri school of horticulture at st. louis. (ses p. 489.) may not be learned, say, from the growth ofMustard and Cress, in which children delight?In this simple operation there is abundant scopefor the clever teacher to drive fast home elemen-tary principles and correct practice. The British Fruit-growers Association hasprepared a scheme for use in country schools,which has been favourably received by theEducation Department. The scheme takes theform of a three years course, the first stage tobe devoted to an elucidation of the principles ofplant-life, not only on a botanical basis, but instrict application to cultural requirements. Thesecond stage deals with the elementary opera-tions of gardening, including the descriptionand use of the implements required. Thethird stage is simply an extension of the second,giving fuller details of the respective operations,and
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