F. W. Moore, Esq., Director of the above gardens, is kind enough to admit two ladies as students in horticulture. No fees are charged, and there is no remuneration of any sort given. There is no syllabus, as the students work under the immediate direction of Mr. Moore. They obtain a thorough knowledge of general garden practice. Cross pollination, collecting seeds, fruit pruning, and all kinds of work, both indoors and out-of-doors, is taught. It is not possible to obtain a more general gardening experience than is given here. All lectures are free. The places are usually taken some years in advance. The first two ladies came on July 1, 1898, and eighteen in all have passed through up to 1907. Of these, the following are at present actively employed as follows:—
Lucy Douglas, County Council Instructor in Horticulture, Co. Cavan; Jane Langley, gardening, laying out gardens, giving advice, good employment in Co. Waterford; Katherine Kinnear, market and nursery gardening in Scotland; Rose Pollock, private secretary and assistant to F. W. Moore, Esq., Botanic Gardens, Dublin; Jean Rogers, working as head gardener; Christina Carlyon, instructor in horticultural college in South Africa; Jane Garner, working her own garden, and botanical and horticultural teacher in Dublin; Emmeline Crocker, head gardener over a large garden in Cornwall; May Crosbie, working her own garden. The students can obtain comfortable and cheap rooms in Dublin, in order to attend daily at the gardens.
The London County Council has organised classes for gardeners, which ladies may attend at
THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL NORWOOD TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, KNIGHT’S HILL, WEST NORWOOD
The following are the syllabuses:
BOTANY (THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL), 5s. PER COURSE
Stage I.—(Elementary): Fridays, 9–10; Practical Class, 7.30–9. Stage II. (Advanced): Fridays, 6.30–7.30; Practical Class, 7.30–9
Lecturer: Miss Eva Whitley, B.Sc.
Stage I. (Covering the London Matriculation Syllabus)