interpretation of john bartram's garden by - University of Delaware ...

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the proper maintenance and interpretation of the collection.
Areas of instruction should include basic pruning, planting,
transplanting, along with disease and insect control. Nuch
of this training should be informal, using experience under
trained supervisors as the primary teaching technique. For
example, if fireblight is observed in the Hawthorn (Crataegus
z.) collection, the Executive Secretary could alert the
gardeners to this problem, explaining the life cycle and
diagnosis of the disease and demonstrating the proper means
of control so that the gardeners could diagnose and treat it
on their own initiative as well as inform visitors about
this problem.
Furthermore, the gardeners should be given a basic
appreciation of the life and horticulture of John Bartram,
since the visiting public often asks them for interpretive
information.
A staff education program w ill support the
interpretive program, improve the level of maintenance, and
enrich the gardeners * jobs.
The possibility of cooperating with neighboring
universities in various internship and work-study programs
should be fully explored. Often government and foundation
grants will fund these programs, making the student workers
available to the cooperating institution at little or no cost.
A small institution like Bartramts Garden is particularly
well suited for such internships because the student can be
given responsible work which would normally be handled by the