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for me by a friend. They give an interesting 

 description of the commencement of a school 

 which is now one of the most famous in Germany. 

 I am told, upon good authority, that posts for 

 lady gardeners are easily obtained ; in fact, that 

 the demand is greater than the supply. The 

 salaries vary from 400 marks to 2,000 marks and 

 free living. The posts are chiefly in private gar- 

 dens, sanatoria, and housekeeping schools. 



DE. ELVIRA CASTNER'S SCHOOL OF POMOLOGY AND 

 HORTICULTURE, MARIENFELDE 



By Makie C. Vorwerk 



In 1877 a German lady-student was Hving in the 

 American seaport of Baltimore. She loved in her leisure 

 hours to seek the harbour and watch the ships come and 

 go. One day in autumn she saw with astonishment, from 

 a train of perhaps fifteen to twenty coaches, an immense 

 quantity of small square boxes unloaded and brought 

 to a ship. On inquiry as to their contents, where they 

 came from, and whither bound, she was told they were 

 apples from California, destined for Germany, and that 

 this fruit was sent every year in increasing numbers to 

 Germany and other European countries. 



Why should Germany import foreign fruit ? Has 

 she not in all her provinces tracts of land with conditions 

 and climate suitable for fruit and vegetable growing, 

 and why should not German women earn a livelihood by 

 horticulture ? From these questions, which the student 



