Identifier: gardenerschronic335lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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Seeing, however, thatthe Glasgow and West of Scotland College costsover £6,000, and the Edinburgh and East ofScotland College over £5,000 per annum, addi-tional grants are still required if the College is tobe equipped and staffed on a scale equal to thetwo colleges named; otherwise there would bethe risk of agricultural students from the Northpassing Aberdeen and proceeding to Edinburghor Glasgow. The prospects, however, for addi-tional contributions are bright, and a few weeks benefits of its teaching to the agricultural com-munity of the district it was supposed to repre-sent, being, as the Scottish Education Depart-ment held, not sufficiently in practical touchwith it, and so failing to inspire that enthusiasmand interest which the importance of the subjectdemanded. Summed up in a sentence, theAgricultural Department of Aberdeen Universityfailed in attaining the end it desired, and theresults the Scottish Education Department ex-pected, chiefly through lack of funds and through
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Fig. 172.- -EDGE HALL, MALPAS, THE RESIDENCE OF THE LATE REV Tee figures include those of the late Mr. Wo!Icy-Dod, and the late Rev. Mr. Harpnr-Crewe another great plant-lover, Mr. A. O. Walker, In 1884. WOLLEY-DOD. (SEE P. 392.) Tae photojraph was t ikeu by ISoses are perishable, but Tea Roses gathered intmd keep fresh for days. The Proposed Agricultural Colligefor Aberdeen and the North—Slowly butsurely matters are getting into train for - thesuccessful establishment of an AgriculturalCollege for Aberdeen and the North of Scotland.Already good progress has been made in securing-annual grants from the authorities of the variousnorthern counties, until now the turn promisedamounts to £2,190, and as the Scottish Educa-tion Department has guaranteed that theGovernment will contribute • penny -about toihe full extent of the sum raised locally, the turnat present available for the College may be should see the successful inauguration of theCollege. A few words concerning the proposal

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