The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
_October._ Sow a small crop of radishes and lettuces, successions of
small salading, and a few early peas to come in next summer. Plant
crops of cabbage, cauliflowers, late brocoli, celery, lettuce, early
beans. Keep uncovered night and day, for the greater part of this
month, such cauliflowers as are planted in frames. All spare ground
should be dunged and trenched.
_November._ Most of the processes used last month will also be
appropriate for this. Such as giving air to lettuce and cauliflower
plants that are under frames. Cut down the leaves of artichokes and
earth up the plants.
_December._ Forward the digging, manuring, or trenching vacant
ground, preparing hot dung, making hot-beds, and earthing and tying
up plants. Sow a few early peas and radishes on warm borders, and
small salading and cucumbers in hot-beds. Plant early beans, strong
cabbage-plants, and coleworts; and plant in hot-beds, cucumbers,
mint, tarragon, and asparagus. The small salads may be sown every
ten days, under frames; and such radish seed as may be put into the
ground this month, should be covered on cold nights with fern, or
long litter.
Salary from 50l. to 100l. a year,—a cottage, generally, and vegetables
and fuel allowed.
THE UNDER GARDENERS.
These men are entirely under the controul and direction of the _head
gardener_, and are employed by him, for the most part, in digging and
trenching, wheeling, dunging, gravelling, hoeing, mowing, and other
laborious work.
They are engaged as weekly servants, and are paid according to their
abilities, from 16 to 20 or 21 shillings per week, and vegetables. Some
_under gardeners_ have a cottage assigned for themselves and families,
and others have also fuel allowed them for their fires.
THE SERVANTS’ HALL.
In large establishments, the housekeeper, the lady’s maid, and the men
servants out of livery, usually take their meals by themselves, in
the housekeeper’s or steward’s room; but when they take their dinner
together, they preserve an order at table like the following:—The
housekeeper usually takes her seat at the head, and the butler at the
lower end of the table; the cook at the right of the housekeeper, and
the lady’s maid on her left; the under butler on the right, and the
coachman on the left of the butler; the house-maid next to the cook,
and the kitchen-maid next to the lady’s-maid; and the men servants
always occupying the lower end of the table. The dinner is set on the
table by the cook, and the beer is drawn by the under butler.
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