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familiarity with them, while insufficient to ensure their being fully 
equipped, serves at least as a good grounding upon which to build up, 
with such aid as well-arranged progressive short courses can give, 
an efficiency to which those starting without such familiarity rarely 
attain. 
With the advent of an enlarged area of technical instruction in 
land work, women have begun to invade a field which had hitherto 
been particularly man's, viz. that of the professional horticulturist, 
and now there are many colleges and gardens where courses of instruc- 
tion are arranged for women with the object of fitting them for some 
department of professional horticulture. 
In the author's opinion, in order to train efficient workers in this 
direction (and the reviewer is entirely of that opinion too), longer 
courses are necessary. Such long courses ' ' should fit women to under- 
take supervisory or advisory work connected with farms and gardens 
dairy-managing posts, educational directorship of colleges and of 
school gardens, lecturing, inspection of cow-feeding, all horticultural 
employment, whether for market gardens or private ones, as head or 
under-gardeners, and jobbing gardening." The author considers too 
that such " occupations are suited only to educated women belonging 
to the upper or middle classes," and this opinion she gives more than 
once. 
It is only here and there among professional men gardeners in 
England that one meets a man of what are usually called the 
" educated classes," but they are becoming more frequent and will 
increase as the importance of intensive work upon the land is more 
realized ; but young men and women who aim at a place among the 
professional gardeners must remember 
" Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made 
By singing ' Oh, how beautiful 1 ' and sitting in the shade, 
While better men than we go out and start their working lives 
At grubbing weeds from gravel -paths with broken dinner knives." 
No few weeks' " training," no mere liking for colour in the garden, will 
make a successful gardener, even of educated men and women. The 
successful gardener, man or woman, of the future will have not only 
technical skill but a deep knowledge of living things, such as books 
alone cannot give, and sympathy with them, and will keep abreast 
of scientific work in its application to the problems with which he 
deals. 
We cannot, within the limits of this brief notice, discuss the college 
curriculum of which we get glimpses here and there in the former of the 
two books, although it strikes us as too full and yet perhaps not full 
enough; nor can we do more than refer with envy to the happy 
conditions and the corporate discipline under which the students 
live at the school which Viscountess Wolseley founded at Glynde in 
Sussex. 
One further word must be said. All through the books the idea of 
co-operation is kept to the front, and in many directions the means for 
