In the Garden
By -PRACTICAL'
X.Y.Z.—Your question is a difficult one, and one is lutli to advise un sucli nit Important question. If a gardener Is'looking lor employment in tlila. Dominion ho would probably llml It difficult to obtain, us there are not v large number of houses where private gardeners are kept, most of this work being done by tlio householder himself. Such employment is mainly reserved for public domains and gardens, which do. not offer very extensive employment. There is quite a good living, however, to bo made out of gardening whore the individual has a little rnptilai, providing he of land close to v city where ho can grow (lowers and vegetables for the early market. Cure must be taken that the land Is not too high-priced, and that tho market for some particular flower or cgctable Is at hand. Even then It Is to some extent a Ramble, be the gardener ever so Industrious; but if a market can be secured a living cv.v be made. Already there are several sucli gardeners in the vicinity of \Vol!lnj,'lou who ninko a comfortable livelihood out of their work. Mucli depends on the individual himself.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 13 September 1928, Page 21
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196In the Garden Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 13 September 1928, Page 21
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