A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



Looking at our directory of members, and tak- 

 ing some names at random: Mrs. T. O. Atkinson, 

 of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, raises nut-trees from 

 seed; Mrs. Henry Burden, Cazenovia, New York, 

 organized her own farm, exhibited hens, and pub- 

 Ushed articles in "The Rural New Yorker"; Miss 

 Josephine Clarke, of Southridge, Massachusetts, 

 has three acres of vegetables and two thousand 

 gladiolus bulbs; Miss Jean Cross, Yonkers, New 

 York, gives illustrated talks on school gardens, 

 back-yard and window gardens; Mrs. Edward 

 Bewley Davis, Newtown, Pennsylvania, breeder 

 of Ayrshire cattle, draft horses, old English sheep- 

 dogs, and Rhode Island red poultry; Mrs. Myrtle 

 Shepherd Francis, Ventiu"a, California, specialist 

 in petunia seed — her seed is known all over the 

 world; Mrs. Gillette, of Fort Solange, Long Island, 

 wild turkeys and hens; Mrs. Gill, Medford, Massa- 

 chusetts, peonies, hollyhock hybrids, and perpetual 

 roses; Mrs. Wm. Roy Smith, general farming, es- 

 pecially potatoes, apple growing, and small fruits, 

 teacher of economics in Bryn Mawr CoUege; Miss 

 Letitia Wright, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ex- 

 pert in bees, has an apiary; Mrs. Arthur Scrib- 

 ner. New York and Mount Kisco, also a bee ex- 

 pert; Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad, Conrad, Indiana, 



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