40 GAEDENING FOE WOMEN 



they will work with a good will which should be 

 encouraging to their chief. 



It is not very probable that anyone, after only 

 two or three years' training, will soar at once to 

 the height of being head gardener on an estate, 

 or of having the direction of many labouring men. 

 I have noted most of the points of importance 

 for a start in the garden profession ; they must be 

 added to from experience as the ladder is mounted 

 towards success. 



I have not, so far, touched upon the main 

 point for consideration, whether the garden be 

 large or small. This is the vegetable garden. It 

 will be necessary, without loss of time, to inter- 

 view the cook, and ask what vegetables are most 

 required. 



" Difierent people, different opinions ; some 

 like apples, some Hke onions." Do not grow 

 what is not wanted. It is well to try and make 

 friends with the cook, for if not, any failure in 

 the vegetable course at dinner will be laid to the 

 gardener's door. They will be too young or too 

 old, too tender or too tough, or it will be said 

 that the cook has expressed an opinion that 

 " no one couldn't cook them vegetables which that 

 there lady gardener sends in." Therefore, spare no 

 pains to be friends with the head of the kitchen, 

 for success or failure may depend much upon her 



