Procedure in

Should the clerk of the market allow any purchaser longer credit than is case of dealers provided by this regulation, he is held responsible for any loss which may whose credit is arise.

not good and

who are in default.

Infringement of regulations by buyers.

Members to

pay 14 per cent.

on the sums

realised by sale of their produce.

Procedure in cases of shortage.

All payments for goods must be made in good current coin of the realm, either in cash or notes, the latter not exceeding £25, and without discount.

If the clerk of the market thinks that the credit of a buyer is not good, he may ask for immediate payment in cash, and if this is not forthcoming he may direct the auctioneer to stop selling to the buyer concerned.

Proceedings are taken by the Association against buyers who are in default. When a buyer infringes any of the foregoing regulations, the clerk of the market may refuse to allow him, either personally or by an agent, to purchase at the market.

Distribution of Receipts to Buyers.

The members of the association receive from the clerk of the market the sums realised for their produce put up for auction at the market, and at the same time hand back to the clerk 1 per cent. of such sums. This percentage on the sales is devoted to the payment of the salaries of the officials, and other expenses of the association.

The association guarantees the payment to the individual members of the sums realised by the sale of their produce.

Number and Weight of Parcels of Goods.

Cabbages are sold in lots of 112, and potatoes in lots of a net weight of 66 lbs. If any of the lots are short in number or weight on unloading, the buyer must report the fact to the examiner, who must settle the matter. In cases where the intervention of the examiner is requested both parties must submit to his decision. If the examiner decides that there must be an allowance on the price, the buyer pays so much less to the clerk of the market, or if he has already paid for the goods the difference in the price is returned to him. These differences are charged to the account of the member whose goods are concerned.

In cases where there is a dispute at the unloading of the goods at the railway station, the member and the buyer must each appoint an examiner, and if these examiners cannot agree a third may be called in, whose opinion must be final.

THE HORTICULTURAL SCHOOL AT BOSKOOP.

III.

COMPLETE SYLLABUS OF LECTURES AT THE HORTICULTURAL AND MARKET-GARDENING SCHOOL AT BOSKOOP.

(a.) Cultivation of Vegetables.

CLASS I. (1 hour weekly).—The cultivation of vegetables in market gardens. Rotation of crops. Choice of seed. Production of seed. Market garden centres in Holland.

CLASS II. (1 hour weekly).-The cultivation of vegetables under glass. Glass houses and frames, and system of heating for the cultivation of vegetables.

(b.) Fruit growing.

Fruit

CLASS I. (1 hour weekly).-Cultivation of fruit trees in nurseries, training and pruning in orchards. Production of fruit under glass. trade.

(c.) Nursery gardening.

CLASS II. (1 hour weekly).-The cultivation of the principal groups of shrubs and conifers with exact demonstrations of their dendrological characteristics.

(d.) Chemistry.

CLASS I. (2 hours weekly).-Simple chemical phenomena and the investigation of the causes which give rise to them. Simple elements and their most important combinations.

CLASS II. (1 hour weekly).-Continuation and development of the lessons in chemistry.

(e.) Manuring.

CLASS II. (1 hour weekly).-Composition, use and application of different manures. Manuring of vegetables, fruit-trees, flowers and shrubs. Manurial experiments.

(g.) Physics.

CLASS I. (1 hours weekly).—Consideration of some physical laws and changes of importance to gardeners.

CLASS II. (1 hour weekly).-Continuation and development of the lessons. Discussion of some atmospheric phenomena.

(h.) Botany.

CLASS I. (2 hours weekly).-Structure of some internal and external parts of the plants.-Systematic botany. (Botanical characteristics and arrangement of the principal garden plants.)

CLASS II. (2 hours weekly).-Continuation and development of the botanical instruction. Life history of plants in so far as this is of

(i.) Nomenclature.

CLASS I. (1 hour weekly).-Explanation of the simple Latin names of plants and synonyms (kinds, species, varieties, sorts, races, bastards).

CLASS II. (1 hour weekly).-Continuation and development of the lessons. Explanation of Latin affixes.

(j.) Zoology.

CLASS I. (1 hour weekly).-Some of the principal features of general zoology as an introduction to the study of insects useful and injurious to horticulture.

(k.) Diseases of Plants.

CLASS II. (2 hours weekly).-Simple and short review of the principal groups of lower plants. Diseases of plants, their prevention and

cure.

(1.) Drawing.

CLASS I. (2 hours weekly).-Elements of garden architecture. Making of simple plans. Elements of architectural drawing.

CLASS II. (1 frames. gardens.

hours weekly).-Planning of sn all gardens, greenhouses, and Preparation of simple estimates of cost of laying out

(m.) Subjects of General interest to Gardeners.

CLASS II. (1 hours weekly).-Sale and Purchase Associations, Credit Institutions. Co-operation. Sale and purchase of produce.

(n.) Floriculture.

CLASS I. (3 hours weekly).-General floriculture. Soils. Sowing. Planting of slips. Layering. Budding. Planting. Preparation. Checking growth. Forcing. Grafting under glass. Treatment during growth. Arrangement of conservatories and frames, systems of heating. Introduction to the cultivation of some of the principal kinds of plants.

CLASS II. (3 hours weekly).-Special culture. Rhododendron. Azalea. Clematis. Ornamental plants. Winter blooming. Uses of various groups of plants in the flower garden. The arrangement of flowers.

(0.) Commercial Correspondence and Arithmetic.

CLASS I. (3 hours weekly).-Drafting of letters, receipts, circulars, commercial reports, preparation of advertisements, filling up of invoices, quantities in German, English, and French, commercial arithmetic, monetary systems, foreign measures and weights, mental arithmetic, accounts, rates of exchange (mortgages, leases, &c.).

CLASS II. (3 hours weekly).-Business correspondence. Commercial geography, geographical description of Germany, England, America; Denmark. Commercial intercourse and communication between Holland and other countries (import duties, &c.). Book-keeping. Simple book-keeping of a market garden business over one entire year (contracts).