In subsequent years, the college has taught not only production and ornamental horticulture but many areas of agriculture: Burnley has been home to a dairy herd, poultry trials and beehives.

He said his group had searched elsewhere, but the nearby site was the best available for the school's needs, including plans to teach organic gardening and horticulture.

The jail at Rikers Island, in New York, is making efforts to reduce this statistic by teaching horticulture to its inmates.

Jocelyne Couture-Nowak A French instructor from the Montreal area, she moved eight years ago to Virginia Tech, where her husband, Jerzy Nowak, teaches horticulture.

Ms. Couture-Nowak's husband, Jerzy Nowak, teaches horticulture at Virginia Tech, and Mr. Bishop's wife, Stefanie Hofer, teaches in the German program.

Dr. Apps and his wife, Marilyn, headed to the University of Kentucky, where he taught ornamental horticulture and did research.

Chinkali Shrestha, headmaster of a high school where Prachanda later went to teach horticulture, recalled being struck by his absolute confidence that Maoism would triumph.

He now lives in Devon where he teaches horticulture.

Michelle Snye and her husband both teach horticulture to inmates, jobs that allow the Snyes to stay in the region where they grew up.

But Mr. Song, who had taught horticulture in the city of Inchon, did not fare as well.