. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Makch 30, 1922 The Florists^ Review 59 TEACHING HORTICULTURE Gffl5H52S25HSHSES25H52S2S252SaSffiHSH52SE5HS2SHS25E52S25HSESESES2SESHSH5252SESH5HSH5H52SESHSHS2SHS2SH^^ TRAINING LOVE FOR FLOWERS. How Others Do It. Slowly and surely ii tasto is develop- jiifi in America for plants and flowers, .1 love for horticulture. I have seen great 'lianges in the twenty-five years I have 'cn coming to this country. I think, iiiutlemen, that it is our duty to fur- tlicr and to foster the love for plants iiere. We must have something in tlie future to whicli to d
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Makch 30, 1922 The Florists^ Review 59 TEACHING HORTICULTURE Gffl5H52S25HSHSES25H52S2S252SaSffiHSH52SE5HS2SHS25E52S25HSESESES2SESHSH5252SESH5HSH5H52SESHSHS2SHS2SH^^ TRAINING LOVE FOR FLOWERS. How Others Do It. Slowly and surely ii tasto is develop- jiifi in America for plants and flowers, .1 love for horticulture. I have seen great 'lianges in the twenty-five years I have 'cn coming to this country. I think, iiiutlemen, that it is our duty to fur- tlicr and to foster the love for plants iiere. We must have something in tlie future to whicli to devote our time. More and more the people are working fewer hours. We must try to give them .something other than a desire to attend (he movies and to speed along the roads at the rate of fifty miles an hour. This can only be done by educating them to love ])lants. Allow me to jjoint out to you what other countries are doing, in order to give the necessary horticul- tural instruction and education. Nat- urally, I am speaking about Holland, the country with which I am most .ac- quainted. In the first place, there is elementary horticultural training in the winter <'ourses, for which the state gives a sulisidy. Each course extends over two winter semesters. Tlie teaching is done l)y the stjite school teachers, who have ."icquired the necessary qualifications; , nurseries; anotluT at T>isse. bulbs; at Nanldwyk, fruit; at Hoorn, vegetables, niul at'the Ilnrticul- tural College at Frederiksoord. The ob- .icit of these colleges is to give the necessary horticultural education to young gardeners, florists, nurserymen, ("tc. The schools are diviiled into two ''lasses and the period of instruction <overs two winter semesters, from Oc- tober to April. In the summer months these young men work with their va- rious employers; this way almost every- liody can afford to attend these col- leges. The colleges are surrounded by more or less extensive grounds, where students re
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