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the oranges and lemons are papered and wrapped by women ; they 

 are wanted in the grape regions, particularly in New York State and 

 California, to pick in the vineyards and pack the fruit in boxes which 

 are sent nearly all over the world. Who can do this so well or 

 better than women? The march of improvement is onward and 

 every day brings something new. 



Second. Possibilities for many women. What some have done 

 and many can do. One must have a love for gardening to make it a 

 success, it must be born in them. In my neighborhood I know of a 

 woman who gets a good living for herself and family by the cultiva- 

 tion of gladiolus, she has a large garden of the choicest varieties and 

 colors, sending them to Boston for sale in their season. She also 

 sells the bulbs. Miss Black of Harrisburg, Penu., a young lady of 

 taste and refinement, and an amateur florist, had the finest display of 

 gladiolus last year ever seen (it is said), numbering some 140 varie- 

 ties. Another woman in a near by town who has two large greenhouses 

 full of English violets, picks every other day for the Boston market. 

 This glass farming is getting to be quite fashionable, and it is some- 

 thing women can engage in easily. As an instance of what women 

 have successfully accomplished in horticulture iu another part of 

 the country, is Somerset Park, a woman's health and pleasure resort 

 in the Rocky Mountains, of which many of you doubtless know. 

 This most beautiful of the Rocky Mountain Parks, lying between 

 Denver and Colorado Springs, and named after that noble English 

 woman. Lady Henry Somerset, is owned and managed by women ; 

 and the president of the resort and association, Mrs. Olive Wright, 

 is by her shrewd management fast making it a famous resort for 

 health and pleasure seekers. The climate is delightful, wild flowers 

 are in great profusion and have become famous the world over for 

 their beauty and variety. Near by are cultivated peach orchards, 

 vineyards, strawberry fields and all kinds of small fruits, which find 

 a ready market in Denver. All these are managed by women. I 

 wish I could half express my earnestness iu trying to persuade the 

 thousands of women in these United States, a country rich in nature, 

 soil adapted to everything in its different locations, free country, 

 fresh air, which insures good health and long life, to more engage 

 in this noble work of tilling the soil, thereby causing two blades of 

 grass to grow where only one grew before. 



Last August I spent a few days in Newport, R. I. I never saw 

 flowers in such profusion there as the past year, the grounds were 

 full of plants and shrubs in full bloom. I naturally looked in the 



