GARDENING FOR WOMEN 10? 



2, She should have the same salary as a man. 

 A lady gardener must not be considered an economy. 

 Many people without consciences think they can 

 exact the same amount of manual work from a 

 young woman that they would expect from a 

 man. They also imagine, because she is a woman, 

 they can pay her lower wages. Pay her well, 

 and treat her well. Her honesty and intelligence 

 will save expense in the end, but do not economise 

 upon her salary. The advantages to be gained 

 by the employer, should he appoint a lady as head 

 gardener, are these : 



(1) Scientific knowledge and true artistic taste. 

 Owing to a college training, and first-rate 

 general education, she should have better scientific 

 knowledge than the ordinary labouring man who 

 has worked his way up from village schooldays, 

 through the different grades of a gardener's life, to 

 be head over others of his own class. She will 

 possess a good grounding in botany and the science 

 of soils. In short, she can reason scientifically. 

 Instead of saying, " Oh, so-and-so won't ever grow 

 here, the soil does not suit it," she will be able to 

 ascertain what quality is lacking in the ground, 

 and by adding an ingredient secure proper growth. 

 Thus, an end will be made to the often erroneous 

 ideas of a foreman, who, because he does not know 

 the requirements of a plant, gives up the idea of 



