A half-holiday is given once a week when the necessary work allows. This implies that quiet times alternate with busy ones, and it is necessary that a high standard in the appearance of a garden should be maintained.
Fees for practical instruction, £10 per annum, payable after a week’s mutual trial. Should the student, owing to any serious breach of discipline, be asked to leave at Miss Wolseley’s wish, this sum is refunded.
The lectures of experts are £2 per annum extra.
Preparation for Royal Horticultural Society’s Examination, £1 extra, but only two-year students go in for this.
Lodgings, conveniently near the gardens, where several students board together, can be secured at 17s. per week, for board and lodging. Each student defrays these expenses.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, READING
Principal: W. M. Childs, M.A., Keble College, Oxford (Professor of Modern History).
Director of the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture: Professor John Percival, M.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Assistant Directors: Edward Brown, F.L.S. (Agriculture); Charles Foster, F.R.H.S. (Horticulture).
Registrar: Francis H. Wright.