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they must have been educated as gardeners, be unmarried, and capable of 

 reading and writing moderately well. 



3. After receiving the recommendation, the secretary will transmit 

 to the person recommending the candidate a copy of these rules, in 

 order that they may be forwarded to him : the candidate will then, in a 

 letter, written by himself, acknowledge the receipt of it ; and will state 

 his age, his present engagements, the time when he desires to be admitted, 

 and the address under which communications are to be made to him. He 

 will likewise state in what occupations, and where he has been employed, 

 since the age of 14. 



4. The candidate will, in reply, be informed whether his answer is 

 satisfactory or not. If the former, his name will be entered on the list 

 for engagement. 



5. On the occurrence of a vacancy, the candidate who shall be then 

 selected for engagement will be informed thereof, and directed to go to 

 the garden at Chiswick, for the purpose of being engaged. 



6. Previously to his being engaged, he must produce to the gardener 

 testimonials of his character, of his past good conduct and ability ; and 

 if these shall be satisfactory to the gardener, he will be engaged. 



7. After his admission, if at the expiration of one month the gardener 

 shall report him unfit for further employment, he will be dismissed. 



8. Any person engaged as a labourer in the garden, who shall miscon- 

 duct himself in any way, whether in or out of the garden, or who shall 

 not implicitly conform to the orders and rules laid down for the conduct 

 of labourers by the gardener, will be immediately discharged. 



9. Each labourer on his first introduction to the garden will be 

 placed in the lowest department, and will be advanced in succession, 

 through the other departments, according to his ability and acquirements, 

 without reference to the time he has been employed in the garden. No 

 person can be admitted for the purpose of study in any one department 

 only. 



10. No person engaged as a labourer in the garden, will be permitted, 

 whilst employed by the Society, to seek for any engagement or service for 

 himself. When employment, suited to the talent or acquirements of any 

 person employed in the garden, shall be known of, the situation will be 

 offered to him; and if agreeable to him he will be recommended thereto. 

 But no labourer will be recommended to any situation until he has been 

 one year at least in the service of the Society. 



11. The gardener will, at his convenience, some time in the month of 

 October or November in each year, report to the secretary the names o. 

 all the labourers who shall have been employed in the garden six months 

 or more, who in his opinion are not likely to attain such proficiency 

 in the business of a gardener as shall qualify them to be recommended to 

 the situation of a head-gardener [that is, who have not the proper bump 

 on their heads] with credit to themselves and the Society; and such 

 persons will be discharged in consequence. 



12. The under-gardeners will be selected from the labourers em- 

 ployed in the garden, solely according to their character, conduct, ability, 

 and acquirements, without any reference whatever to the period of their 

 employment or their age, and they may be removed from the superin- 

 tendence of one department to that of" another, as may be found con- 

 venient, without any other consideration. 



13. On the nomination of an under-gardener he will be considered 

 in a state of probation for three months : and if during, or at the expir- 

 ation of that time, he shall be found unequal to the situation, he 

 will then be either dismissed, or will return to his former station of a 

 labourer. 



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