The servants practical guide : a handbook of duties and rules / By the author of "Manners and tone of good society".

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[1880]
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    head gardener, is regulated by the size of the gardens and the extent of the operations carried on; but it is the head gardener’s duty to apportion the work to each man employed in the gardens and to see that it is properly performed ; ho is rather an autocrat in his way, and is usually studied and conciliated by the feminine branches of the family. He objects, on principle, to his choicest blossoms being cut by his mistress or her daughters, or the finest bunches of grapes being gathered; when his green-houses and hot-houses are to be rifled, he prefers that it should be done by himself rather than by his mistress, and ladies who value their gardeners are inclined to humour this weakness. The scale of gardeners vary as much as do the extent of the gardens themselves, from the gardens of a castle to those of a cottage or villa; from the head gardener, with twenty-five gardeners under him, to the one gardener, who is assisted in his labours by a boy, or is even unassisted by a boy, and who adds to his duty of gardener that of a groom, taking charge of pony and pony-carriage. The duties of a gamekeeper hardly come within the province of the present work. The wages a gamekeeper receives are mentioned in the tariff of servant’s wages. The head game- keeper occupies a cottage on the estate, and the second keeper is provided with a cottage also; the head