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The college girl who would gladly return to her country home 
if only there were some way by which she might make her own 
spending money for books and magazines and the new wants 
that are one of the results of college education, might profitably 
and joyously enter upon this work. It would be difficult to find 
a more truly educational and benevolent ee of usefulness. To 
send into the heart of a great city real bits of the real country! 
While it is true that ultimately a great majority of the flowers 
find their way into the homes of the rich, still the florist’s win- 
dow, like the month of June, ‘ may i had by the poorest 
comer’; and the crowd pauses and lingers longest about the 
window where the first spring wild-flowers are displayed. 
Also childhood is alike the world over, and while we cannot 
but deplore a condition where among sixty children in a certain 
grade of a school in one of the poorest and most crowded districts 
of New York City, no one child knew af of the four common 
flowers, the violet, clover, buttercup and daisy, still it is equally 
true that the children of the rich know but little of the charms 
of the country. 
In addition to the market of the florist, there is growing up in 
our high-schools a demand for material that is in itself a prob- 
em. Some of our larger high-schools receive this material lit- 
erally by the barrel. Unless there be some rational way of sup- 
plying this demand, the study of botany according to present 
laboratory methods will defeat its own purpose, for as now car- 
ried on in many places, it is a serious cause of the devastation 
of some of the most interesting of our native plants. Here again 
the training and experience of the college girl would be of ines- 
timable value. Her flower-farm might codperate with high- 
school work not only in the way of providing material, but of 
adding descriptions and photographs of the various habitats of 
the specimens used. When a pupil knows that his columbine 
was one of a group growing in the crevice of a rock in a certain 
photograph, it means vastly more than a columbine in the air 
without anchorage or environment. 
Thus far we have considered the question largely from the 
industrial side, and have suggested means for supplying the rea- 
