182 GARDENING FOR WOMEN 



fruit and vegetable garden, greenhouses, hot-beds be- 

 longing to Neuwied, a neighbouring country residence, 

 serve as the practical field of work for the school. All 

 the labour needed is done by the students. The school 

 is in two buildings, with single- and double-bedded rooms 

 for the reception of twenty ladies. Hot and cold water 

 is laid on, with bath-rooms and central heating. Com- 

 fortably furnished sitting-rooms give the opportunity 

 for social intercourse during ofi-time. This school gives 

 educated girls and women the chance to acquire the requisite 

 practice and knowledge to work a garden correctly and 

 independently. 



Practical and theoretical instruction are both given, 

 but the greater value is placed on thoroughly comprehensive 

 "practical knowledge. 



I. — ^Two years' course 

 For those ladies who wish to fit themselves for a 

 gardener's caUing, and later take posts as gardeners on 

 estates, in villa gardens, sanatoria, house-keeping schools, 

 educational institutions, etc. (2,000 have taken situations 

 with salary, six without). 



A. — ^PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION 



Pomology : Hybridisation, care, forcing, sale. Vegetable 

 culture : Open-air and forcing, sale. Floriculture : Hardy 

 and hot-house flowers, balcony and room decoration, 

 arranging, making wreaths. Commercial gardening : Sale 

 and despatch, with practical book-keeping. Landscape 

 gardening : Designing, laying out and care of gardens. 

 Basket weaving, joinery, glazing. 



