INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18416, 24 June 1925, Page 5

INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE.

*- CANTERBURY COUNCIL. The annual report of the Canterbury DiS" trict Council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture states that the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture is now firmly established as an incorporated society with a central executive and district councils ot Auckland, Gisborne, Manawatu, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Dunedift, with over 200 members in different parts of the Dominion. The Canterbury Council has taken advantage of all opportunities offering to further the objects of the Institute in the Canterbury district. The important question of education and training in Horticulture has been fully discussed by the executive, and various suggestions forwarded to the Educational Committee set up at the annual meeting of the Institute. The executive also brought this matter before the Workers' Educational Association, with the result that an outing was arranged to the gardens of the Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, Otahuna. A W.E.A. horticulture class with Mr C. E. Foweraker, M.A., IT.L.S., as tutor, was duly arranged, and is now meeting weekly in the Biological Laboratory of Canterbury College . . On the occasion when the Commission on Education in Agriculture sat m Christchurch tbo opportunity was taken to place the claims of Horticulture before them. As the result of an interview with the Librarian of the Public Library the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society' is now available ill the Reference Department. A suggestion made by the lion, secretary through the Nurserymen's Association nas led tne Dunedin and South Seaß Exhibition Committee to decide to hold a Horticultural Week in connexion with the Exhibition durifcg the last week of January, 1926.