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Advisory work is undertaken at a guinea for the first 

 visit, and half-a-guinea for subsequent visits ; or two guineas 

 a week with all expenses. 



Miss A: Bateson, Bashley Nursery, New Milton, 

 Hants, has a most successful market garden, described on 

 p. 73. She sometimes takes students, and her terms 

 are £40 premium for a year's work without residence ; 

 £100 per annum premium with board and residence. 



Miss Dixon, F.K.H.S., holding the Horticultural 

 College, Swanley, diploma, and 1st class Horticultural 

 certificate. South Kensington, assisted by Miss Eve, 

 R.H.S., receives students at Elmcroft Nursery, Westergate, 

 Chichester, suitable rooms being provided in the village. 

 The house stands in two acres of ground, four miles from 

 Bognor, and six from Chichester. Both soil and chmate 

 are good. There are 300 ft. of glass, in which are grown 

 melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, peaches, strawberries, forced 

 rhubarb and seakale, early vegetables, roses, chrysanthe- 

 mums, bulbs, etc. Outside are grown roses, sweet peas, 

 violets, and other flowers ; vegetables of all sorts, and 

 fruit. 



Poultry and ducks are kept, and there is also jam making 

 and fruit bottling. 



The produce is chiefly sent to Bognor, Chichester, and 

 Manchester, and private orders are suppHed for weekly 

 hampers of vegetables, eggs, and cut flowers. 



A man is kept to help with the rough work. 



In 1907 Miss Dixon obtained the R.H.S. Silver Medal 

 for melons, and second prize for fruit, flowers, and jam 



