172 GARDENING FOR WOMEN 



The ten-acre garden is not sufficient to employ tlie many 

 students, altliougli all the work is done by the ladies ; 

 more ground has been added, and, in addition, each class 

 undertakes to keep in order one or two private gardens 

 in the colony. 



What becomes of all the students after training ? Do 

 they find really satisfactory posts ? Up till now the situa- 

 tions offered cannot be filled, there not being sufficient 

 candidates. The great varieties in the exercise of this 

 calling, which in my opinion are not nearly exhausted, 

 promise to all women, giving themselves to it, a suitable 

 and pleasant occupation. 



All nerve and lung sanatoria, as well as Nature Cure 

 establishments, on whose patients garden work exercises 

 such a beneficial effect, all house-keeping schools, kinder- 

 garten, benevolent institutions and orphanages will, it is 

 to be hoped, in a few years, consider the appointment of 

 a trained lady gardener a matter of course. Then come 

 posts in private gardens, in town or country, nursery 

 gardens, soon it is to be hoped school gardens, and all 

 new schools of horticulture. 



A glance at our statistics shows that proportionately 

 few scholars of the two years' course undergo the exam- 

 ination, and later take situations. This is explained by 

 the different scholars who come here, and who may be 

 divided into three classes : — 



1. Those who actually prepare for a profession. 



2. So-called " hospitantinnen," mostly ailing ladies, 

 ordered by a doctor work in the open air. 



3. Young girls between sixteen and eighteen years of 



