HORTICULTURE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 264, 4 August 1936, Page 5

HORTICULTURE

Proposed Training For Teachers Details of a proposed course in horticulture Which he intends to place before the Wellington Education Board were outlined by Mr. H. W. Hesse, the board’s .Supervisor of Agriculture and Science Instruction, in an interview with "‘The Dominion” yesterday. Mr. Hesse said his idea was to make use of an area of ground at the Teachers’ Training College for the training of students who were interested in raising trees and shrubs from seed, from cuttings, by vegetative propagation and propagation by layering. The students would also be taught how to make boxes for the sowing of flower seeds and would be shown the correct method of pricking out young seedlings—in fact the whole process adopted by professional nurserymen. “At the back of the whole idea.” Mr. Hesse said, “lies the fact that in the city we have a population which does not receive the agricultural bias of rural areas. We could overcome that by giving boys in different schools an opportunity of visiting the proposed nursery at Kelburn. “When they left school, such a course of study would no doubt inculcate a proper use of the leisure time brought about through decreased hours of employment and would also enable students to beautify their homes by planting and looking after trees and shrubs. Those who wished to take up the work as a career would And the knowledge gained at the class invaluable to them.”