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which last seven months. Hastum school also admits 

 students for six- week courses. Instruction is given in 

 the cultivation of fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Fruit- 

 preserving is also taught. Training plants, forcing, frame 

 and hot-bed culture, chemistry, botany, agriculture, and the 

 diseases of plants are taught by lecture. At the same time 

 students have to practise out-of-doors what they have 

 learnt theoretically. 



From the Norwegian horticultural high school only 

 one lady has up to now passed out, but about 140 ladies 

 in all have been through the lower schools. Several of 

 these have bought land to work on themselves, others 

 have taken posts in private gardens or in market gardens, 

 They usually receive a salary of 25-30 kr. a month, be- 

 sides a house and food. Others work in their own home 

 gardens. Vegetables and fruit grow well, the flavour of 

 them being far better than those grown further south. 



I am told upon good authority that Norwegian women 

 realise more and more that a great work lies before them 

 out-of-doors, and they begin to prefer contact with Nature 

 to sedentary work in ofiices. 



SWEDEN 



Through the kindness of a friend I am able to give a 

 translation of the prospectus of the 



GARDENING SCHOOL AT AGDATORP, 

 a practical school for lady gardeners. 



The summer term begins on April 1st. The school, 

 which is helped by the State and " Blekinge hushallnings: 

 sallskap," takes students of all classes of society. 



