Certain entrance qualifications are required. The entrance fee is 10 kr.,[4] the fee per term (two terms a year), about 50 kr.; the examination fees, Part I., 15 kr.; Part II., 25 kr. Scholarships may be obtained. The college is not residential, and the students are not subject to any rules out of school hours. Women are admitted on exactly the same terms as men, but very few have hitherto graduated—only one before 1894, and six after that time.

[4] One krone = 1s. 1½d.

The instruction is partly oral, partly in writing, partly work in the laboratories. Botanical excursions are held nearly every week in the spring and autumn. Practical training in surveying and levelling is given in July of the first year’s course.

SYLLABUS: LECTURES, CLASSES, PRACTICAL WORK, AND DEMONSTRATION

First Year’s Course
Lessons per week.
First term.Second term.
Mechanical physics and optics32
Chemical physics22
Meteorology21
Chemistry44
Geology and knowledge of soils44
Botany44
General horticulture22
Laying out of gardens and cultivation of ornamental plants21
Horticultural zoology11
Practical chemistry99
Surveying (Oct. 1st to May 15th)42
Drawing66
Second Year’s Course
General horticulture32
Cultivation of vegetables22
Orchard and nursery gardening52
Laying out of gardens and cultivation of ornamental plants23
Forcing of useful plants23
Horticultural botany44
Pathology of plants22
Horticultural zoology1
Agricultural chemistry16
Comparing of garden plans66
Practical horticulture22

THE EXAMINATIONS COMPRISE:—

Part I. (after the first year’s course)

Physics and meteorology, oral; chemistry, oral, practical and written; knowledge of soils, oral; botany, oral; surveying and levelling, practical drawing.

Part II. (after the second year’s course)

(No one is admitted to Part II. who has not passed satisfactorily in Part I.)