24 GAEDENING FOE WOMEN 



organising, and directing is what ladies should 

 excel in. 



By procuring large instalments of bulbs, rais- 

 ing quantities of perennials from seed, keeping up 

 a plentiful supply of bedding-out plants on their 

 own land, a satisfactory effect can be produced 

 in many villa gardens at comparatively small cost. 

 For a fixed sum per annum the jobbing gardener 

 could undertake to keep in good order, plant and 

 tend all in each small garden. It is easily esti- 

 mated that this kind of work becomes, after 

 the first outlay, exceedingly remunerative and 

 interesting. There is employment for old and 

 young, strong and delicate ; a happy combination 

 of interests and tastes is what should perhaps 

 be most sought for by the staff of ladies in such an 

 enterprise. Secretarial work, planning tempting 

 price lists, would fall to the lot of one, whilst 

 landscape gardening would belong to another. 



In all branches of horticulture the remuneration 

 to be obtained by a lady should not be less than 

 that earned by a man. She is indeed entitled 

 to receive even more than a man head gardener, 

 as compensation for her superior taste and good 

 education. The particulars which I am able to 

 give of Mrs. Chamberlain's work on p. 257 show 

 how large a sphere can be covered by jobbing 

 gardening, and in Miss Agar's account (p. 253) 



