GARDENING FOR WOMEN 223 



Mrs. Low asts me to draw attention to the fact that 

 the work of " landscape design " is the most important 

 in her school. Garden and greenhouse work are secondary 

 to this. She tells me that several of her former students 

 have become supervisors of school gardens, in connection 

 with the Public Schools or Village Improvement Societies. 

 The highest salary is $60 per month, for five months. 

 One former student has gone to Portland, in Oregon, on 

 the Pacific coast, where she is told she will soon become 

 e^ablished as a landscape gardener. Several women 

 have already made a success of landscape gardening. 

 Ten years hence they will be heard of all over the 

 country. At present the largest income is £800, or 

 $4,000. 



The two photographs of Lowthorpe are attractive. 

 Three years ago the site of the present avenue, leading 

 to the house, was a field. The students surveyed the 

 avenue under instruction, and then did the planting. 

 They have to learn to read a surveyor's plan with ease. 

 In the oval in front of the door are Rhododendron maximum, 

 which is hardy in Massachusetts, ferns and Rinus Strabus. 

 At the entrance on the right are viburnums, cornus, 

 lonicera, roses, etc. The picture of the southern entrance 

 gives the bulb garden, between the greenhouse and verandah, 

 where later on bloom lilies, lilacs and magnolias. On the 

 left is a hedge of white rose rugosa. Through the arch 

 one goes into the garden. The large tree is a " platanus 

 occidentalis." The place was an old farm when Mrs. 

 Low bought it in 1900-1, and we can judge by the well- 

 kept grounds what a success she has made of it. 



