CHAPTER II 



THE TRAINING REQUIRED 



There are various ways of obtaining the necessary 

 training to be a lady gardener. Both at home 

 and abroad numerous colleges and schools exist 

 where young women are well instructed in all 

 branches of Horticulture. A college course is 

 necessary, but if a girl is not more than twenty 

 years of age (and it is advisable that she should 

 not be much younger when she commences her 

 training) it will help her to be apprenticed for a 

 year or two first in a private garden. Should she 

 prefer, it will be better still to spend two years 

 at a small school where instruction is more in- 

 dividual and personal than in a large college. 

 Here the students are few in number, and care- 

 fully selected, and it is possible to learn in 

 the same way that the working man learned, 

 when he began as a garden boy. The pupil will 

 be ordered to do menial jobs, such as turning 

 manure, wheeling refuse, sweeping leaves, or mow- 

 ing a lawn. This comparative drudgery must 



