Gardening for women
A PUPIL IN WORKING COSTUME, SCHOOL FOR LADY GARDENERS, GLYNDE, SUSSEX.
Photograph by Pictorial Agency.
THE HON. FRANCES WOLSELEY
PRINCIPAL OF THE GLYNDE SCHOOL FOR LADY GARDENERS IN SUSSEX
WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1908
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
How often it is that Fate places us amongst people whose characters, pursuits, and tastes we do not know! We hesitate how best to melt that barrier of icy reserve and shyness behind which we English remain frozen. How can we speedily break through the reserve which rises up between us and the stranger near us? There is at least one subject of conversation which usually calls forth a response—it is gardening.
Whether our neighbour be politician, soldier, architect, or painter, he will surely listen with interest to the mention of a garden. He will tell us of some newly-discovered plant, a flower show that he went to see, or he will expatiate upon the beauties of South African bulbs. We may be sure that if he himself is no gardener, he has someone dear to him who is a lover of flowers. After a hard day’s work in the City, he will gladly turn his thoughts to the peace and quiet of a walled-in country garden, where the hum of bees and the scent of sweet briar or rosemary bring happiness and contentment.
It is the same with country people, who live in our quiet English villages that are as yet unspoilt by the dust of motors and the noise of holiday-makers. A little chat over the garden wall in the cool of evening, about the luxuriant growth of the peas, the beauty of madonna lilies gleaming white against the dark timber of the cottage, or the special size of this year’s roses, will often make a lasting friendship. No make-believe pastime is gardening with them; it is their true recreation. Their lives have been passed amidst fields, trees, beautiful hedgerows, and consequently they look upon these objects as friends. Surely this love of Nature is wholesome both to body and mind, and greatly to be encouraged by all who wish for the well-being of England and her Colonies.
Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
TOOLS
OTHER REQUISITES
BOARD AND LODGING
OUTFIT
THE THATCHAM FRUIT AND FLOWER FARM SCHOOL OF GARDENING, HENWICK, NEAR NEWBURY
INSTRUCTION IN PRACTICAL GARDENING FOR LADIES, GLYNDE, NEAR LEWES, SUSSEX
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, READING
THE HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE, SWANLEY
STUDLEY HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE, STUDLEY, WARWICKSHIRE
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON PRACTICAL GARDENING SCHOOL FOR LADIES
THE EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF GARDENING FOR WOMEN, CORSTORPHINE, EDINBURGH
CLASSES TAKEN AT THE EDINBURGH AND EAST OF SCOTLAND COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
The Year’s Work
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, GLASNEVIN, DUBLIN, IRELAND
THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL NORWOOD TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, KNIGHT’S HILL, WEST NORWOOD
BROWNHILL ROAD EVENING SCIENCE, ART, ETC., COMMERCIAL CENTRE, CATFORD, S.E.
BLOOMFIELD ROAD EVENING COMMERCIAL AND SCIENCE AND ART CENTRE, PLUMSTEAD
KILMORIE ROAD EVENING COMMERCIAL AND ART CENTRE, FOREST HILL, S.E.
BELGIUM
DENMARK
I.—DEN KONGELIGE VETERINOR AND LAND BOHOJSKOLE
Copenhagen
II.—HAVEBRUGSHOJSKOLEN “VILVORDE” PR. CHARLOTTENLUND, NEAR COPENHAGEN
III.—THE ROYAL GARDENS AT ROSENBORG CASTLE, COPENHAGEN
GERMANY
DR. ELVIRA CASTNER’S SCHOOL OF POMOLOGY AND HORTICULTURE, MARIENFELDE
POMOLOGICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN, AT WOLFENBÜTTEL
THE MARIENBURG SCHOOL FOR LADY GARDENERS
SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE FOR LADIES, AT HOLTENAU, NEAR KIEL, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
AUGUSTE-FÖRSTER INSTITUTION, OBERZWEHREN (KREIS CASSEL)
HOLLAND
GOVERNMENT WINTER SCHOOL FOR GARDENING (HORTICULTURE)
COURSE OF HORTICULTURAL STUDY AT THE ACADEMY AT LEIDEN
NORWAY
SWEDEN
GARDENING SCHOOL AT AGDATORP,
ESPENÄS SCHOOL FOR LADY GARDENERS
SWITZERLAND
ÉCOLE PROFESSIONNELLE D’HORTICULTURE POUR LES FEMMES
THE UNITED STATES
NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, NEW YORK
LOWTHORPE SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING AND HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN, AT GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN
THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS, ST. LOUIS, MO.
NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, NEW YORK
ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES
THE MACDONALD SCHOOL GARDENS
THE SCHOOL GARDENS OF CARLETON COUNTY, ONTARIO
NOVA SCOTIA
PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA
AUSTRALIA
SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE IN RICHMOND PARK, MELBOURNE
NEW SOUTH WALES
TASMANIA
THE VIOLET NURSERIES AT HENFIELD, SUSSEX.
HOLLY BUSH NURSERY, CHESNUT LANE, AMERSHAM, BUCKS
HINTS FOR LAYING OUT FLOWER BEDS
