Diploma (Second Year)
1. Theory and practice of horticulture (including more advanced study of soils and manures, cultivation under glass, forcing, methods of dealing with fungoid diseases and insect pests, improvement of plants by budding, hybridisation, etc., packing and marketing, florists’ work, storage of fruit).
2. Botany (theoretical and practical).
3. Entomology (theoretical and practical).
The fees for the above full courses are as follows:—
For students who have resided for not less than a year in the County Borough of Reading or the administrative Counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, or Buckinghamshire, £18 the session of forty weeks; for other students, £24 the session.
Students may, however, enter for shorter periods than one year, and may take courses of practical work, together with such lectures as may suit their requirements. The fees are:—For five weeks, £7 7s., for ten weeks, £10 10s. In addition to the above fees, all students pay the registration fee of one shilling per session, and there are entrance fees for examinations. The cost of board and lodging at the college hostels is 21s. per week (for a cubicle), or 25s. to 30s. (for a study bedroom).
Diplomas are not awarded to candidates under the age of twenty-one.
Scholarships tenable at the college are awarded from time to time by the County Councils of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Somersetshire, and Gloucestershire. Application should be made to the Education Secretaries of these counties.
Courses in Agriculture, Dairying, and Poultry-keeping are held at the college. Practical instruction is given at the College Farm, Shinfield, the British Dairy Institute, Reading, and the College Poultry Farm, Theale.