86 GAEDENING FOR WOMEN 



colour all the year ? Careful study and much 

 reading are needed, but happy evenings fly 

 speedily by, as you gaze into the fire and plan a 

 lovely summer dream garden. Then, too, there 

 is the interest of arranging work for others, mar- 

 shalling the men at your command and apportion- 

 ing the work to their different characters and 

 temperaments. It is indeed no monotonous, un- 

 intellectual life. 



A report has been received from one of our 

 modern university colleges where lectures are pro- 

 vided upon various subjects. It teUs us that 

 women students are occasionally absent owing to 

 indisposition from lectures and demonstrations 

 upon history and classics, but that they attend 

 with regularity those upon gardening. This is a 

 flattering statement as regards the interest of 

 horticulture. 



Several of the reports of foreign schools which 

 I am able to give, through the kindness of their 

 directors, show that other nations are in advance 

 of us in two points, at least, connected with this 

 branch of study. 



In Germany, Holland, and Italy, great stress 

 is laid upon the ultimate use of horticultural 

 courses. They are intended especially to fit young 

 women to be useful in their own homes, either 

 while living with their parents, or later when they 



