WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE 



at Spokane, but a few months ago was elected 

 president of the Pacific Nurseryman's Association. 

 Mrs. Cleveland, of Eatontown, New Jersey, deals 

 in fine irises; Miss Frances Mcllvane has the 

 Twin Larches Nurseries at West Chester, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Many women are raising flowers on a 

 small scale for sale. Others have truck-gardens, 

 and besides selling vegetables and small fruits do 

 canning and jelly-making, which add considerably 

 to their incomes. 



In farm management Miss M. holds a position 

 at the Connecticut Industrial Schools for Girls, 



Middletown, Connecticut, and Miss M M. is 



managing the Robert Bacon Farm, Westbury, 

 Long Island. Many farm or estate owners are 

 managing] their own places. Landscape architec- 

 ture, or the vocation of consulting gardener, is so 

 commonly practised to-day by women as hardly 

 to need mention. My own opinion with regard to 

 this profession is that there are openings now, 

 especially in the Middle and Far West, for women 

 garden designers and planters of the very little 

 garden, the best use of the town or city lot. It 

 is the miniature garden which must always be the 

 possession of the many, and the intelligent use 

 of a small bit of ground is a matter with which 



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