io8 WOMEN-GARDENERS 



We want in England more well-trained, educated, 

 foreseeing people as gardeners. Each week this 

 fact is brought home to the Principal of the College 

 of Gardening at Glynde, which I founded some 

 twelve years ago. 



I often wish we could enlist for this profession 

 the services of active ladies, accustomed to out-of- 

 door, country lives, preferably the daughters of 

 Army or Navy officers. The life is a happy one 

 and the profession is remunerative. Why do they 

 hold back from it ? The two years' training is no 

 harder than that of other workers and there are 

 ever- widening prospects developing for the trained, 

 experienced gardener. 



We often have the offer of a comfortable cottage, 

 large enough for three or four ladies, who would 

 receive coals, milk, vegetables, and salaries ranging 

 from 1 8s. to 305. per week, according to experience. 

 In many cases the ladies would be given entire 

 control of a large kitchen garden and, provided they 

 supplied the owner with his household wants, 

 would have a free hand as regards the disposal of 

 the remainder of the fruit and vegetables. The 

 following letter is typical of what we are asked. 



" The Gardens, 



" Castle. 



" December 30, 1914. 



" Dear Sir (or Madam), 



" As the garden staff here is sadly depleted 

 owing to the war, I was wondering, if I suggest 

 placing lady gardeners in the bothy, if they could 

 be had from your College, and I would like to know 

 particulars as to wages expected (we paid the 



