this department in the Bulletin?" Quick as a flash she twinkled up 
at me and answered " Good! and why don't you write an article about 
us whilst you are here?" "Let's do both," I replied and herewith ful- 
fill my part of the agreement. 
You have seen, I am sure, a good many articles in various maga- 
zines about this School of Landscape Architecture for Women, so I 
am glad there is a new department for me to tell of and although it is a 
department that can be of especial interest to us, — old gardeners with 
ever-new gardens, — still I must leave room to tell you of some other 
details of the School and its curriculum. 
I want to propose, here and now, that The Garden Club of 
America "lend a hand" in the maintenance of this lovely and in- 
teresting organization and that we place our orders for alpines and 
perennials here at Lowthorpe. "The girls" in the school tell me that 
there never were such plants as Miss Hetzer ships. "You should 
see how they are packed" said one. "We do it ourselves, — it is a 
part of our course," I think we might be very proud indeed to be 
continuously Patronesses of a Woman's School of Horticulture. 
Over in the corner of the drafting room is a group of post-graduates 
who at this minute are working out the solution of a problem which 
troubled some home maker to such an extent that she appealed to 
one of our well known magazines whose Reader's Service Department 
offers to help any one in their garden plans and it occurs to me to 
ask why should not Garden Club members make known their wants 
of this kind directly to the Drafting Department of Lowthorpe, — 
again being real Patronesses. 
It has been exceedingly interesting these days to watch the never 
ending procession of special teachers who come down from Boston, — 
some one for some department every day of the week, — yesterday 
Mr. Kellogg, to criticise problems in architectural design, today 
Miss Dawson from Radcliffe — almost born and brought up in the 
Arboretum, — who teaches identification of trees and shrubs, and a 
man from Harvard for surveying. Tomorrow will come Professor 
Pray of Harvard for landscape design and Professor Sholtes for 
drawing and water color. 
Nor are these from the big outside more interesting than Miss 
Cogswell with her lectures and wonderful photographs on the History 
of Gardens, or Mrs. Strang with her exquisite detail of plans, or 
Miss Hetzer, who this smiling, sunny March day took us over to 
prune the grape vines and pear trees hanging over a neighboring pig 
sty. 
Did you ever see any pictures of the interior of Lowthorpe? 
But why ask? — it is so easy to see places and things and forget them. 
