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THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
INSTRUCTION IN GARDENING 
1919 
OPPORTUNITIES 
An excellent opportunity for pleasant and profitable employ- 
ment is now offered to men in practical gardening. In commer- 
cial and private greenhouses the demand for trained men is far 
beyond the supply. Public parks need foremen and superinten- 
dents who understand all phases of ornamental gardening. A 
continually increasing number of private estates are employing 
gardeners and require men trained not only in gardening proper, 
but in the elements of landscape design, road and path making, 
and the general care of gardens and grounds. Heretofore most 
of the gardeners have been British, Dutch, or Germans, trained in 
gardening before emigrating to America. Since immigration has 
ceased, the demand for gardeners must in the future be filled by 
Americans. During the war the wages paid to gardeners have 
steadily increased. While they do not yet equal the wages in 
some industrial pursuits, the gardener has many other compen- 
sations. His position is not temporary, his work is pleasant, 
healthful, and diversified, and in many cases gardeners on private 
states have their house and vegetable garden furnished and live 
in unusually attractive situations. 
To meet the growing demand for trained gardeners, the New 
York Botanical Garden has established courses of instruction in 
strdening and has extended its remarkable facilities to the stu- 
dents. 
FACILITIES 
The grounds of the Botanical Garden occupy nearly 400 acres 
of Bronx Park, New York City. They are traversed by the 
Bronx River and adorned by several small lakes. Part of the 
<round is occupied by natural woodlands and the remainder has 
Teen Laid out by trained landscape architects into ornamental 
plantings, including flower beds, rose and iris gardens, shrubbery 
