Outdoor Work.—Ground operations, implements used; levelling with borning rods; draining; formation of paths, beds, and lawns; trenching, digging and hoeing; preparation for planting, etc.; care of lawns—mowing with machine, sweeping, weeding, and rolling; flower gardening—herbaceous borders, pricking off, planting; staking, tying and watering; vegetable and fruit garden—double digging, manuring; preparation of seed beds; aërating the soil.
Indoor Work.—Cleaning and crocking pots; materials required for composts; potting, watering, cleaning, staking, tying and top-dressing plants; propagation by cuttings, as geraniums, etc.; pricking off seedlings.
SECOND YEAR
Outdoor Work.—Preparing and storing manure, methods of application; care of lawns, flower and kitchen garden, shrubbery, fernery, etc.; sowing vegetable and flower seeds, and planting tubers; growing vegetables, flowers and fruits; outdoor tomato culture.
Indoor Work.—Horticultural buildings, repairing, painting and glazing; propagation by division of roots, stems, and tubers; forcing and retarding; insects and fungoid pests; methods of extermination; melon, cucumber and tomato culture.
Theoretical Work.—Suitable manures for various soils; principles of hot-water heating.
THIRD YEAR
Pruning trees and shrubs; mowing with scythe; special classes of plants; hybridisation and selection; care of conservatory, plant houses, frames and pits; spraying plants; mushroom culture; vine and fig culture; budding and grafting; labelling.
Theoretical Work.—Keeping garden accounts, stock books, stores, etc.; purchase of pots, gravel, sand, peat, manure, etc.; elementary meteorology; theory of landscape gardening; plant parasites; sprays and washes for insect pests; classes and laboratory work in botany and horticultural chemistry.
The society undertakes that each pupil shall be given opportunities for studying and practising each of the above subjects, but it cannot guarantee that in every case the order of the above list will be adhered to.