224 GARDENING FOR WOMEN 



PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE FOR 

 WOMEN 



The plan of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for 

 Women has originated in the desire to ofier to women an 

 opportunity to fit themselves for an occupation at once 

 healthful, pleasant, profitable, peculiarly fitted to their 

 gifts, and in which they have ever taken an intelligent 

 interest and active part. 



Our purpose is to offer to these earnest-minded women 

 a training in the principles and practice of horticulture 

 and aUied subjects, knowing that really skilled labour can 

 always find a market, helping them also to find employ- 

 ment in the work for which they have been thus 

 prepared. 



To this end we expect to open in the near future the 

 " Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women." A 

 small farm of twenty to forty acres will be obtained (prob- 

 ably rented), having upon it a comfortable dweUing with 

 accommodation for about ten students (at fijst). Flower 

 and kitchen gardens and orchards will be laid out and 

 planted. Teachers of skill and experience will lecture upon 

 the principles and practice of the courses of study offered, 

 and will oversee all practice work done by students. For 

 the very heavy work a labourer will be employed, but the 

 students will do all the rest themselves imder direct super- 

 vision of the teacher. A competent matron or principal 

 will be in charge of the household and will have general 

 oversight of the students. 



The full course will occupy two years of twelve months 

 each, but arrangements will be made for suitable hoUdays, 



