A man is kept to help with the rough work.
CAPTAIN COLTHURST VESEY’S GARDEN, LUCAN, IRELAND.
FOR MANY YEARS HIS MOTHER, MRS. VESEY, HAS MADE THE GARDEN HER PERSONAL INTEREST.
Photograph by Pictorial Agency.
In 1907 Miss Dixon obtained the R.H.S. Silver Medal for melons, and second prize for fruit, flowers, and jam from the Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural International Union.
Although the following is not a school for instruction in horticulture, I should like to mention it, as young ladies are taught floral decoration and other matters, which may prove of great use to them, if they wish to start job gardening or decoration for themselves.
The Women’s London Gardening Association, established in 1891, undertakes floral decorations of all kinds. Cut flowers supplied regularly by contract, and arranged if desired. Wreaths, crosses, sprays, bouquets, baskets, dinner-tables, receptions, ballrooms, platforms, weddings, etc. Table decorations are a speciality. Jobbing gardening work is also done. Contracts are taken to keep in order, and furnish, gardens, conservatories, window-boxes, balconies, roof-gardens, etc., by the year or season.
Advice is given on the management of country or suburban gardens at reasonable fees. Lawns are sown and kept in order, gravel is supplied, soils, fibre, sand, flowerpots, retail. Seeds, bulbs, etc.
The above is under the management of Mrs. T. Chamberlain, and all communications should be addressed to her at 107, Pimlico Road, Chelsea, S.W.