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Supervising apprentices

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Supervising apprentices

Many horticultural apprentices do part of their training in public gardens. Superintendent David Tannock (right) checks the work of apprentice gardeners in the Dunedin Botanic Garden, around 1906.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Public gardens – Types of public garden, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18811/supervising-apprentices (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.