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to employ women as landscape gardeners. Should 

 it be possible for women to make a success of 

 private garden designs, it would surely help to- 

 wards their appointment to larger spheres of land- 

 scape garden work. The laying out of parks, 

 squares, and garden cities could be handed over 

 to them, and what a large source of interest this 

 would be. 



It is unfortunate that we in England attach 

 so little importance to the study of forestry. In 

 none of our agricultural colleges is it taught in 

 the same thorough way as in Germany. A great 

 future might be open to a lady who studied this 

 subject. It might be possible to induce a consulting 

 forester in England, Scotland, or, better still, in 

 Germany, to take a pupil. This subject, if fully 

 mastered, would be of the greatest use in carrying 

 out large alterations in public parks or private 

 grounds. 



To any lady with a love of nature, the pos- 

 session of taste, and possibly the wish to improve 

 and add to the beauty of our EngKsh country 

 homes, this branch of gardening will greatly 

 appeal. What a pleasurable sensation it is to 

 see a lovely picture growing daily more like the 

 plan that was roughly sketched out. How satis- 

 factory to watch the building up of that stately 

 terrace beneath the house, which puts the finishing 



