Worshipful Company of Gardeners

The Worshipful Company of Gardeners

One of the Livery Companies of the City of London. and is ranked at 66.

Its motto is. In The Sweat Of Thy Brows Shalt Thow Eate Thy Bread.

An organisation of Gardeners existed in the middle of the fourteenth century; it received a Royal Charter in 1605.

The Worshipful Company of Gardeners, first mentioned in City Corporation records in 1345, is a survivor from the medieval craft guilds which exercised control over the practice of their particular crafts and ensured a proper training through the system of apprenticeship

In 1605, after existing for centuries as a "mystery" or "fellowship", the Guild was incorporated by Royal Charter. The Charter sets out the operations controlled by the Company: “The trade, crafte or misterie of gardening, planting, grafting, setting, sowing, cutting, arboring, rocking, mounting, covering, fencing and removing of plants, herbes, seedes, fruites, trees, stocks, setts, and of contryving the conveyances to the same belonging ... ".

Since 1891, the year in which the Company was granted City Livery status, 11 Lord Mayors have been Gardeners. Of these, eight served as Master.

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