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FROM Dr. Hooker's recently issued report on the progress and condition of the Royal Gardens, Kew, for 1874, we learn that a series of lectures, or, as they are called in the report, “practical lessons,” have been given to the gardeners during the evenings, after working hours. These “lessons” embrace the elements of structural, systematic, and physiological botany; of chemistry, physical geography, and meteorology, in their application to horticulture; of economic botany, forestry, &c. They are given, some in the young men's Library, others in the Garden or Museum. Notes of these lessons have to be taken by those attending them, which, after being fairly written out in notebooks, are examined periodically by the teacher and corrected, or more explicit instruction given if necessary. The attendance at these lessons is voluntary, but the fact of “good attendance ” is recorded in every gardener's certificate of conduct and proficiency on his leaving the service of the establishment.
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Report on the Progress and Condition of the Royal Gardens at Kew during the Year 1874. Nature 12, 445–446 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012445a0
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