THE WOMAN GARDENER
Young women of Victoria are doing their best to live down the criticism that they are afraid of life on the land. Each year since the course has been open to them more and more have attended the Horticultural College at Burnley, and at present there are more women qualified to earn a livelihood in gardening than there are jobs offering, states a Melbourne yvriter. Nevertheless, women have gone a long way, especially in helping to mould public taste, since the days when Miss Higgins, sister of the late Mr. Justice Higgins, laid out and designed the beautiful wiklwood garden of her brother's country home near Dromana. It is in the sphere of landscape gardening that the women trained in horticulture have made their greatest advance. To-dav many of them find this work lucrative, and they also make a little money by drawing designs for gardens for those who cannot afford their services in practical work, but who recognise that expert advice will help them. Dame Nellie Melba gave women gardeners tremendous assistance in their fight for recognition when she employed them at Coombe Cottage and gave them a cottage to live iiy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22005, 11 January 1935, Page 3
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