MARKET GARDENING 9 



Therefore, because training was necessary 

 all sorts of classes were opened to give the 

 necessary instruction in indoor or sedentary indoor pro- 

 occupations, and hundreds of girls, many of 

 them well-educated, found a livelihood as 

 clerks, typists, secretaries, etc., not to mention 

 the medical and nursing professions. 



These having been exhausted to a large 

 extent, a movement was set on foot some 

 twelve years or so ago for women to learn 

 gardening, and a women's branch was added 

 to the Swanley Horticultural College. Many 

 girls went there, and some are now success- 

 ful gardeners, either on their own account 

 or else in posts. In 1897, to commemorate 

 the Diamond Jubilee, the Victorian Era 

 Exhibition at Earl's Court was planned, and 

 various society ladies consented to form 

 themselves into a committee to manage the 

 Women's Section, which was sub-divided 

 into many branches of education, art and 

 literature. Lady Warwick was chairman of 

 the Education Section, and by her wish a 



