^^^ligcntly understand garden work, so^ 

 ^^P^ that they may know the right and wrong 

 f method of the work. 1 

 When women do know the right and wrong 

 method of gardening, I know they will find real 

 joy in it. I believe the day is gone, the time has 

 passed, when women will be satisfied with just 

 arranging and admiring the flowers that their 

 gardener has sent in. They will wish to do some- 

 thing more ! They will be workers in their gardens. 



Women will be as familiar with floriculture 

 as they are with flowers. To-day, for a woman to 

 actually work in her garden is nothing at all un- 

 usual. Indeed, it is quite the usual thing. 



Several great estates in England have women 

 gardeners (and this before England's present un- 

 happy days), a woman and her assistants ; also, in 

 many cases, a woman at the head of a garden 

 staff of men. We have faith in women doctors, 

 haven't we?— in women artists, in women deco- 

 rators, in women architects, in women sculptors 

 and— suffragettes? Why not in women gardeners? 

 Why not employ them? Why not encourage their 

 work in this field? 



The interest women of this country take in 

 gardening will be apparent when you realize that 



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