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WOMEN'S WAY TO 



FLORISTS' WORK 



Recognizing women's fitness for certain departments of horticultural 

 work, many florists wish to give their daughters an education more than the 

 experience of helping about the store or greenhouses. Those seeking for the 

 schools best adapted to give this training will find much information below. 



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HEEEVER you find florists, 

 you'll find among them 

 successful women fiorists. 

 In no other trade that is 

 not occupied Trholly in ca- 

 tering to women's needs 

 will one find so many of 

 the so-called weaker sex. 

 In no other trade is it so 

 common a thing for a 

 widow to assume the business responsi- 

 bilities of a departed husband. In no 

 other trade does a "Miss" 

 so often occur 

 proprietor of 

 chiefly men. 



And this was as true before the war 

 as it is today. The shortage of labor 

 caused by the war made a greater call 

 upon women for horticultural work than 

 formerly, for their fitness had already 

 been well demonstrated by those of the 

 sex previously engaged therein. Since 

 the scarcity of help seems likely to be- 

 come aggravated rather than alleviated 

 as industrial activity increases, women 

 ■will have wider and greater opportu- 

 nities in this field. 



or "Mrs." 

 before the name of the 

 a business employing 



It's Not AH Book Learning. 



The skill of a woman's fingers is re- 

 garded as a valuable asset in a retail 

 store, in arranging bouquets and baskets 

 and in making up designs. There is 

 scarcely a shop of size that has not one 

 or more women in its employ. In small 

 towns Mr. Florist has charge of the 

 greenhouses and grows the stock, while 

 Mrs. Florist manages the retail end of 

 the business. The sons follow their 

 father into the growing branch and the 

 daughters help the mother. 



Successful Growers, Too. 



Not that women have shown lack of 

 success in the capacity of grower. The 

 demand for them in the store has kept 

 them from the greenhouse. In the latter 

 place they do quite as well about deli- 

 cate tasks, though not equal to men in 

 standing the temperature and in per- 

 forming tasks requiring sheer physical 

 strengtn. The Dale Estate, at Brampton, 

 Ont., one of the largest greenhouse estab- 

 lishments in Canada, has employed a 

 large number of women for several years 

 and finds them exceedingly satisfactory. 



Bealizing the increasing possibilities 

 of the trade and greater openings for 

 women in it, florists throughout the 

 country are sending their daughters as 

 well as their sons to schools where they 

 can get horticultural training, so that 

 tliey may have a thorough knowledge 

 of the scientific and perfected methods 

 of horticulture to back their observa- 

 tion and experience in the greenhouses 

 at home. 



So strong has been the call for horti- 

 cultural instruction that two schools 

 devote themselves solely to courses for 

 girls. Both have made a name for them- 

 selves. One is the Lowthorpe School, at 

 Groton, Mass., the other the School of 

 Horticulture for Women, at Ambler, 

 Pa. Those who are planning a horticul- 

 tural education for daughter will be 

 interested in the courses these schools 

 have to offer. If daughter is to start 

 this autumn, now is the time to begin 

 the planning, for these schools open not 

 much more than a month hence. 



Lowthorpe 's Two Courses. 



The Lowthorpe School has two courses, 

 one a 3-year course in landscape archi- 

 tecture and gardening, and the other a 

 2-year course in horticulture and plant- 

 ing design. The first term opens about 

 the middle of September, the second at 

 the beginning of February, and the 

 school year ends June 30. 



The first year's landscape wrork in- 

 cludes (1) instruction in the principles 

 of design and their application to land- 

 scape architecture; (2) architectural de- 



sign, a course of reading supplemented 

 by lectures; (3) drawing and water color 

 sketching; (4) lectures on the history 

 of gardens; (5) surveying, to familiarize 

 the students with surveyors' work 

 rather than to give them facility in its 

 practice; (6) botany; (7) plant identifi- 

 cation; (8) horticulture, including in- 

 struction in preparation of soils, meth- 

 ods of propagation, planting, pruning, 

 hybridization and - the care of green- 

 houses and garden. 



Most of the work is continued during 

 the second year. New subjects taken 

 up are problems of earthwork construc- 

 tion, planting design and soil study. In 

 the third year is added economic ento- 

 mology, studying insects beneficial and 

 injurious to plants. 



This course has produced a number of 

 women landscape architects of ability, 

 whose work is considered of much merit 

 in the east, where more of such work is 

 done. 



The course in horticulture, requiring 

 only two years, covers (1) horticulture, 

 including garden operations and green- 

 house practice and management; (2) 



It's Practical Greenhouse Work. 



