Gloucester County Democrat., 1902-12-25

ming. Its pupils are regularly grad
uated after they have learned horti-
culture and landscape gardening In
Great Britain the women landscape
gardeners soon find good places. They
are useful aids to village improve
ment societies.
One or two of these trained English
women gardeners have migrated to the
United States and found employment
In the planning out and superintend
ence of the work of parks. cemeteries.
fair and country casino grounds. as
well as Of villages laid out on the park
system, women succeed perfectly
There are now SO many large ornamen-
tai estates in America that here is
er, and here, too. women have been
tried and proved themselves entirely
capable.
If, however, a city woman, born and
bred. with q few hundred dollars
should essay to make a living in this to
her untrodden field. the first thing she
would be almost dead sure to do would
be to lose all the money she had and
still be ignorant of her trade The right
thing in such a case would be first to
attend a school of practical gardening,
even spending all her money in getting
the necessary knowledge. At the end
she would at least know how and be
ready to go to work
Here again, though, there is difficulty,
for the United States is almost desti-
tute of schools of horticulture. At
some of the state universities and agri-
cultural colleges are gardening courses
for both sexes, and these are better
than-any other kind. AT the same time
1t is beyond doubt that if school of
horticulture for women were started in
every state in the Union it would pros
per from the beginning.
Enterprising and up to date farm
women who know the practical part
of gardening might everywhere earn
good sum annually by taking a few
boarding pupils into their homes and
instructlng them in this sure way OF
earning good living.
One gardening school for women has
been established at Groton, Mass. 1t
Is called the School of Horticulture and
Landscape Gardening For Women and
was founded and is conducted by
woman, Mrs. Edward Gilchrist Low.
The seat of the enterprise is an old
farm with good orchard on it. Green
houses have been built around the home
structure. The successful gardener
near good market now gets profit all
the year round. The raising of rad
ishes. lettuce and cucumbers in green
houses is pleasant work and as easy as
flower culture. There is woman near
Boston who has a handsome income
from the culture of winter cucumbers.
The southern states constitute an es-
pecially favorable region for the ex-
plotting of women's schools of horticul-
ture and landscape gardening. The
northern market for southern grown
fresh vegetables is q good and constant
ly increasing one. Southern women.
with their habitual outdoor activity,
make excellent gardeners.
Meantime women at home on farms
anu III rIldSco NdA AdhE pTOul iIOtll
this industry to much greater extent
than they do. They can learn from a
reliable gardening book and from ex-
perience. Few women have knowledge
Of the use and beauty that can be got
from even one acre of ground. A Ger
man woman who knew her business has
this season filed 100 cans with fruit
that grew in her own yard of less than
one acre. Besides the fruit she raised
all the vegetables the family wanted.
Anywhere in the northern states a
lean-to greenhouse for growing winter
things may be attached to the home
dwelling without great expense. par
ticularIy If the dwelling be Of brick.
In a good local greenhouse violets and
carnations yield an enviable profit In
winter. MARCIA CAMPBELL. /