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own requirements, and if the gardener is not on 

 good terms with the agent or bailiff, it is possible 

 that the total at the bottom of the garden expense 

 column may be surprisingly large. My advice, 

 therefore, is to make friends with the estate 

 department. When pea boughs, and timber for 

 rails are needed, when locks are to be repaired, or 

 hinges fixed, it is good to have a friend at court. 



(7) Occasionally matters are put under a 

 gardener's direction which can hardly be called 

 garden work. The washing down of drains, clean- 

 ing away leaves from the roof gutters, brushing 

 snow of! the roof, emptying receptacles of refuse, 

 burning waste paper from the house, may fall to 

 a lady gardener's lot. In any case, when specific 

 duties are ascertained, no responsibility connected 

 with them should be handed over to subordinates. 

 Washing a drain down is not, perhaps, an especially 

 elevating task, and it may be urged that any 

 fool can do it. It will only be done, however, and 

 well done, if the men know that a look-out is 

 being kept for their neglect or carelessness. If 

 they are sometimes unexpectedly watched it will 

 be found that the work is well done, and instead 

 of their thinking less of their " head," they will 

 respect her all the more. 



If a holiday is asked for them sometimes, or 

 a kind act is performed for their wives or children, 



