HORTICULTURE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23111, 27 January 1945, Page 3

HORTICULTURE

Courses At Lincoln College The facilities and the quality of the courses provided in general agriculture at Lincoln College are widely known A more specialised type of course, one in general horticulture, is scheduled to commence on March 1. The syllabus is designed to give a broad basic training in general horticulture, and is suited equally to those who wish to enter a career in the administration of parks and reserves as to those who wish to engage in the more specialised fields of fruitgrowing, market gardening, nursery practice, landscape gardening and cut flower production. . In addition to the College Certificate Horticulture the course prepares students for the examinations of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Short rehabilitation courses in horticulture are also available for returned men.

The College is well equipped with laboratories and a specialist staff for instruction in the sciences basic to horticulture, such as soils apd manures, botany, bacteriology, mycology and entomology, and the instruction previously available will form the basis of the new course. The practical horticultural instruction is in charge of Mr Noel Lothian, a horticulturist with both local and overseas experience. With the reorganisation consequent on the new building programme and alterations to the layout of the College grounds, students taking the course will have opportunity of participating in landscape work on a large scale. The existing nursery is being completely reorganised and a full range of glasshouses, frames and compost bins will shortly be constructed. The existing orchard, which already contains a range of pip, stone and berry fruits, will be kept up to date with new varieties as they appear. An up-to-date library is stocked with all the available textbooks and current periodicals.