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some lessons in botany. During their training men 

 get 10 kr. a month, the first year, 24. kr. the second. Women 

 get nothing the first year, 10 kr. a month the second, 

 but then they have not exactly the same work. 



A practical examination can be entered for after 

 five years' practical gardening : sometimes old students 

 come back after some years to go in for this examination. 

 Not many women have been trained at Rosenborg, and 

 only one has had an appointment there — ^for a short time 

 after her training. 



Several estates and market gardens take women as 

 pupils, but the training is only practical. Very few 

 women earn an independent Hving as gardeners ; market 

 gardening is usually considered rather hard work for women, 

 and, besides, requires capital, and no woman has hitherto 

 obtained a superior situation in any of the larger gardens, 

 public or private. When they obtain a post they are 

 usually paid less than the men for the same work. 



Upon the whole, gardening in Denmark does not seem 

 at present to be a very re commendable career for women 

 who have to earn their Hving by it. On the other hand, 

 many women now study it for use in their own homes. 

 Thus there are State-aided courses for cottagers' wives 

 and daughters both at Kjarhave and at a few other 

 schools. Teachers go through a course of gardening in 

 order to be able to teach in the school gardens. 



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