A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



women are especially qualified to deal. Miss 

 Katherine Jones, instructor in landscape-gardening 

 at the University of California, shares my opinion 

 in this. "I feel," writes she, "that the small 

 home garden is a problem for the women landscape- 

 gardeners, as the men seem to care little to handle 

 problems that bring in such small returns." The 

 producing of maple sugar is the chosen province of 

 work of Miss Alice Brown, of Shelbume, Massa- 

 chusetts. In Vermont Mrs. Walter Dodd and Mrs. 

 Russell Tyson also market this delicious article. 

 Trained women are teaching gardening and allied 

 subjects, such as botany and nature-study; many 

 calls come to the office for teachers of gardening in 

 schools in the South. There are many opportvmi- 

 ties for the teacher of school gardening. Supervi- 

 sors of garden units and canning are in demand. 

 Miss L. is now in charge of canning and a camp 

 of garden girls at a hotel at Lake Placid, New 

 York. 



Occasional oflFers come of positions combining 

 secretarial work or bookkeeping with out-of-door 

 work. These are on private places. There are 

 now and then calls for a garden-director in a mill 

 district. Miss McC, a graduate of the Pennsyl- 

 vania School of Horticulture for Women at Ambler, 



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