M niE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



letting them stand out-doors one sharp frosty night, he had buried 

 them for spring planting, I answered him, " you have made a trade 

 that will be a danmge to you, for with the careless treatment tliey 

 have already received, no doubt many of them are dead now, and as 

 they cost you nothing, you will not take care of them, and they will 

 die of neglect." He replied, "I guess you are right." 



I advise you to buy of a man who has some practical knowledge 

 of varieties, soils and location. And buy of a man who has estab- 

 lished a reputation for fair dealing. Tliat course would decrease the 

 quantity and improve the quality of this class of middlemen. 



I advise you to subscribe for a good paper that devotes part of 

 its columns to imparting horticultural knowledge; read it carefully^ 

 and when in your own experience you find anything that may be of 

 interest for others, write it and send it to the paper for their benefit. 

 Also pay one dollar every year to be a member of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society — Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario — this will help 

 the Society to- disseminate suitable information to»the public; you will 

 then be entitled each year to a copy of the transactions, wliich 

 eontain A^aluable reading,, well worth the dollar to yourselves aad 

 families. 



WOMA^^'S WORK IN HORTICULTUEK 



BY MRS. H. M. LEWIS,. MADISOX, WISCONSIN. 



From the transactions of the Wiscomin State Herticvlttiral Society, 



I wish to have it clearly understood that I am not an advocate of 

 woman's rights in the full sense oi the word, and I have no admiration 

 for a manly woman, but I do advocate that woman has- the right to do 

 any and all things for herself and family that she can do with dignity, 

 and without losing any of her womanly delicacy. I am s^lre that the 

 great majority of women would not enter public life were its doors 

 fully open to them ; l)ut I believe that the unmarried woman who pays- 

 taxes and has no j)rotector, has the same right to the ballot box if she 

 desises it, that the man has who uses her money for public benefit.. 



" The woman's cause is man's ; they rise or sink 

 Togetker, dwarfed or Gokirlike, boad or free.." 



