[3] Courses in these subjects are given once in two years.
Head Gardener: Mr. J. Lawson
There is also a staff of under-gardeners and labourers.
The college is situated seventeen and a half miles from London, and one and a half miles from Swanley Junction Station on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.
Women were admitted in 1892, the college being the first place to open its doors to women students who wished to obtain a thorough training in horticulture.
It stands in forty-three acres of freehold land, allotted to flower, kitchen, market gardens, fruit plantations, playing fields, also conservatories and glass-houses for market work.
Lecture rooms and laboratories form part of the college, while adjoining are a workshop, farm buildings, apiary, dairy, poultry runs, etc.
It aims at giving a thorough training to fit women to become market growers, gardeners in private places, teachers of nature-study and colonists, or to enable them to manage their own property.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
The full horticultural course lasts two years, and consists of practical work out of doors and under glass, with lectures on scientific principles. Diplomas or certificates are awarded to students who have qualified.