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selling, shipping, slipping, repotting and preparing plants and boqiiets 

 for market. She often re-potted three hundred plants in a day with 

 her own hands, and wJien evening came, was the life of a charmed 

 circle, who admired her for the beauty of her cultivated mind, fine 

 nmsical talents, and kind, loving heart. She entered upon her work 

 with the gi'eatest love and enthusiasm for it. Often when she was 

 admiring nature's wealth and varieties of colors, and breathing the 

 very odors of Heaven, she would exclaim, "You little know what 

 beautiful thoughts come to me out of the gi'ound, as I study the 

 fathomless mysteries of plant life." Her work was not all toil; it was 

 truly an inspii-ation. Women so happily and healthfully employed 

 are seldom sick. One such woman worker is doing more for the 

 woman's cause than a score of Susan Anthonys. We are proud of 

 such women, and we have thousands of them all around us. Mrs. 

 Little, of the blind asylum, Mrs. Harvey of hospital fame, and Mrs. 

 Lynde, who has done so much to relieve suffering in our poor-houses 

 and jails, are representatives of this type of women in our own State, 

 and our good President Hayes' wife, of national fame, whose bright 

 light shines over the whole world, is proving that the "present epoch 

 is initiating an empire of the higher reason of arts, affections, aspirations, 

 and for that epoch the genius of woman has been reserved," proving 

 the old Oriental proverb, '■ that every book of knowledge is implanted 

 by nature in the heart of w^oman," to be true; scattering to the winds 

 the i)ernicious and absurd saying of Voltaire, that "ideas were like 

 beards; women and young men have none." 



Woman is emerging from the gloom of the dark ages into glorious 

 light. She is like the famished plant in the gardener's hand. It 

 seemingly droops and withers without hope, but when he gives it the 

 elements of growth, rich soil, dew, rain and God's sunshine, it expands 

 into a plant that sends out its beautifid foliage and rich blossoms, that 

 will fill the air with fragrance and beauty, and the " world's autumn'' 

 with rich fruit. 



Horticulture promotes health, furnishes appetizing and invigorating 

 food, is a most delightful means of recreation, cultivates a refined taste, 

 induces a spirit of cheerfulness, and awakens a sympathy vrith nature 

 and a love for all the Creator's works. 



