A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



perience and training, but, because I was a woman, 

 he could not offer the position to me. The home 

 and school garden work seems to open the great- 

 est avenue of success for the professional women 

 in agriculture. Financially I find this pays better 

 and gives a broader scope to develop one's own 

 ideas and plans than holding a position on a pri- 

 vate estate in a greenhouse or on a dairy farm." 



Dean Watts, of Pennsylvania State College, be- 

 lieves that horticulture offers special inducement 

 to women, both for pleasure and profit. As to 

 fruit-growing, the following paragraphs, at once 

 practical and delightful, from Mrs. S., vice-presi- 

 dent of the Pennsylvania Rural Progress Associa- 

 tion, are good to have: 



"There is no interest more delightful than agri- 

 culture for women," writes Mrs. S. "It seems to 

 me that it is quite ideal, and certainly very fine 

 for the health. During these past war years I 

 have had charge of two fruit-farms and one dairy- 

 farm, and with excellent people employed by us 

 on all these farms everything has gone well. The 

 fruit business appeals to me much more than 

 dairying or general farming. It is very scientific 

 and quite concrete. The returns from it are very 

 large at times. This year, with the break-down of 



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