Conducted by Martha Breymann
OBJECTS AND INSTRUCTION
The object of the two-years’ course is to give the most comprehensive instruction in horticulture, so as to afford ladies the opportunity of fitting themselves for an independent career in husbandry; or by a one year’s course to be able to occupy their time usefully and happily in cultivating their own ground. Besides the correct working of the ground, the aim is to teach the pupils to know for themselves the most necessary work and its proper execution, and to turn them out practical gardeners and capable, observant characters.
The forenoon, till the pause for breakfast, is kept exclusively for practical work, which daily amounts to five or six hours. The field of activity is the nine-acre garden of the “Breymann Educational Institute for Young Girls,” with pleasure-grounds, greenhouses, forcing-beds, vegetable-fields, nursery, etc. The opportunity to learn bee-culture is also given.
The theoretical instruction serves to explain and so to support the practical work. It comprises:
1. Botany.—Plant life.
2. Elementary chemistry, for the better understanding of the transformations of matter, instruction in manures, analysis of soils.
3. Fruit and vegetable culture.
4. Flower growing.
5. Arboriculture.