§ MR. RANKIN (Herefordshire, Leominster)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the subject of botany, mentioned in the list of specific subjects in Section 15 of the new Code, comprehends instruction in practical gardening and in the uses of plants and of their value as food; and whether it is necessary that evening classes should be in every case taught by certificated teachers?
§ *SIR W. HART DYKEAny person over 18 years of age approved by the Inspector may be recognized as a teacher of an evening school. A footnote to the Schedule of specific subjects gives power to the managers to submit to the Inspector a progressive series of lessons in any of the subjects mentioned, and this, in connection with botany, would include the uses of plants and their value as food. I doubt its including instruction in practical gardening, except for the purposes of illustration.