102 SUMMER IN A BOG. 



value, and many a woman, all over the civilized 

 world, is turning her attention to special 

 branches of agriculture. Indeed, among the 

 employments suggested for women at a recent 

 woman's congress was agriculture. 



Woman has an originality of observation 

 to her credit. 



Constant vigilance is the price of freedom 

 from unwelcome vegetable tramps. Eoads are 

 narrowly fenced, and laws passed to restrain 

 the gypsy squatter and horse-trader from loit- 

 ering along the way and encroaching upon the 

 comfort and health of the tiller of the soil and 

 his herds, but the tramp seeds which come in 

 foreign grains would gain permanent hold if 

 stringent measures were not used to restrain 

 them. Boards of Health exist for the preven- 

 tion and isolation of diseases ; so, in like man- 

 ner, do police and detective forces exist for pro- 

 tection against the immoral and dishonest 

 classes. Religious, educational, and moral or- 

 ganizations exist for the uplifting of the people 

 to higher spiritual, intellectual, and ethical 

 standards. 



In the vegetable world all these forces are 

 represented in the botanical and agricultural 

 institutions, and the need of wide co-operation 

 is not sufficiently recognized. 



There are beneficial plants to be introduced 



