8 GARDENING FOR WOMEN 



be gone througli in order to understand how to 

 direct others. Even wheeling a barrow full of 

 soil and washing out pots is interesting if the 

 heart be in the profession and there is the wish 

 to succeed. 



In a private garden or small school, too, it will 

 be possible to follow the ultimate use the pots are 

 put to, after they are washed, and the reason for 

 each operation will be more easily made apparent 

 than is the case in a lar^e colleoje, where lectures 

 and theoretical classes are sometimes put before 

 practice. AMien there is a large number of 

 students, too, it is impossible that all should 

 take part in each operation. Personal interest 

 in the garden is apt to be lost sight of, and teach- 

 ing becomes a " demonstration," where the expert 

 does the work, and the students look on. They 

 cannot thus learn in the only thorough way, by 

 working themselves. 



In a college course, hours are often suited to 

 the requirements of expert lecturers, and students 

 are apt to ignore the fixed hours of work observed 

 in a privat^e garden. I have known students to 

 whom it never occurred that it might not be agree- 

 able to the family to hear the sound of raking on 

 a gravel path outside the breakfast room, and who 

 were unconscious of its being an ofience against 

 garden etiquette for them to shout remarks t^3 



