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(Id. per week), "The Journal of Horticulture" 

 (2d. per week), or the " Gardener's Chronicle " 

 (3d. per week), a reminder of the regular rotation 

 of work will be secured. By reading these it will 

 be seen exactly when to harvest fruit, prune 

 shrubs and roses, clean over borders, layer carna- 

 tions, etc. All details connected with these 

 different operations will have been learned at 

 college, so I need not add another to the many 

 gardening books that will already have been read. 



I want to draw attention to one quality that 

 a lady head-gardener may find herself in need 

 of. It is humility. I do not know a profession 

 in which this is more necessary than in gardening. 

 Because all difficulties of the soil in a chalky 

 southern county have been learned, the require- 

 ments of that poor land mastered, and preparations 

 made to guard against the violent attacks of the 

 south-west wind, do not suppose that these same 

 torments exist necessarily in other counties. 

 Enemies and insect pests will be found, but they 

 may not always be the same kind. The good 

 advice and hints, therefore, that may be obtained 

 from smock-frocked residents in the neighbourhood 

 should not be despised. They have, perhaps, 

 never been further than the nearest town close by ; 

 reading and writing are difficulties which they 

 cannot overcome, but they have fully taken in 



