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Book: History of Garden Design and Gardening
Chapter: Chapter 3: European Gardens (500AD-1850)

Swedish gardeners

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447. There is no such thing as a journeyman gardener in Sweden. When a young man has served an apprenticeship of three or four years, he is considered qualified to take the charge of a garden, and becomes at once a head gardener.