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GAKDENING FOR WOMEN 



time to time, as apprentices or improvers to learn jobbing 

 gardening, florist's work, or both if desired. Terms for 

 improvers who have already had some training, 10s. per 

 week to start with. The terms for a course, £30. The 

 ladies find their own board and lodging, xifter three 

 months, Mrs. Chamberlain pays them 2s. 6d. per week, 

 and after six months 5s. per w^eek. For the last quarter 

 of their training, ladies receive 7s. 6d. per week. Some- 

 times ladies are taken for four months, upon payment 

 by them of £10 10s. 



Should it prove desirable, they can, at the end of this 

 time, pay a further sum and remain a year. Pupils are 

 expected to be ready to do anything required, and are 

 not allowed to pick and choose their work. 



The following extracts from the report of the 



WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CLUB 



will serve to show the scope of its object and work. 

 The club has as its premises the Manor House, 

 Bredon's Norton, near Tewkesbury, Worcester- 

 shire. 



There are few more beautiful spots in rural England 

 than the little village of Bredon's Norton in Worcester- 

 shire, nesthng as it does at the base of the lofty Bredon 

 Hill and overlooking the fertile valley of the Severn. 

 The club-house stands on a gentle eminence, and from its 

 broad terraces may be viewed some of the most lovely 



