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GARDENING FOR WOMEN 



be fired with ambition ; will vie with each other 

 in improving upon this system of education. We 

 shall have others following the example of the 

 late Miss Lucy R. Latter. She it was who did 

 such good work in this respect as head infants' 

 mistress of the Invicta Road Council School, 

 Westcombe Park. Having carefully studied the 

 question in Italy, France, and the United States, 

 she was given a commission by the Government of 

 the Maharajah to start school gardens in con- 

 nection with the public school system of Mysore. 

 Teachers were prepared by her to carry on the 

 work ; and let us hope that, although gloom has 

 been cast by her sudden death, they will yet have 

 been inspired by her to continue their efforts. 



There is no doubt that the school garden 

 successfully developed is the pivot round which 

 nature -study revolves, and as time goes on it 

 will be seen more and more that gardening and 

 nature-study have much in common. Those ladies 

 who have talent for teaching, and have been 

 through a course of gardening, will find many 

 openings for work. A garden, although artificial, 

 is far less so than a schoolroom, and it combines 

 scope for general education, quite apart from mere 

 manual horticultural teaching. 



I am informed by one of the greatest authorities 

 upon this subject that science mistresses do not 



