HOLLY BUSH NURSERY, CHESNUT LANE, AMERSHAM, BUCKS
Miss M. Agar and Miss M. G. Holmes, directors of this garden, are willing to take ladies as students in simple land surveying and plan drawing. Terms for tuition are £2 2s. per week; and if students live at the nursery, 30s. a week is charged for board and lodging.
Gardening students will probably be admitted shortly, but the garden has not been started long enough to take these at present. Miss Agar is a garden designer. The following are particulars of her nursery garden:—
The Nursery undertakes the laying out, stocking, and up-keep of gardens, and provides seeds, bulbs, plants, shrubs, and all garden requisites.
Skilled gardening labour is supplied at 4s. a day. Yearly or monthly contracts can be made.
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.R.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 climate are good. There are 300 ft. of glass, in which are grown melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, peaches, strawberries, forced rhubarb and seakale, early vegetables, roses, chrysanthemums, 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 supplied for weekly hampers of vegetables, eggs, and cut flowers.