Part 31 (2/2)

To go to school in a potato patch; to say one's lessons to a farreenhouse--this is the pleasant lot of the oing to college, or perhaps after going to college

If ever there was a vocation that see would at first glance be the one From the tiarden grow?”

down to the busy city wo in her flowerbeds, gardens have seearden activities have belonged to her by right

In various parts of the country there have now been established schools where young woetables and flowers, and s themselves Soricultural colleges, with more or less limited courses of instruction; but, just out of Philadelphia, there is a school, to which women only are ade of outdoor study

One begins to feel the hoiven as to how to reach it

”Out the old Lime-kiln road,” you are told And out the old Lio, until you come to a farm which spells the perfection of care in every cluirls in broad-brio in strawberry tiathered, with an overalled instructor, under an apple tree the needs of which are being studied

Under some sedate shade trees, you are led to an old Pennsylvania stone far, if you please Beyond are the barns, poultry houses, nurseries and greenhouses, and a cottage which is used as a dorirls--as unlike the usual dormitory as the school is unlike the usual school A bee colony has its own little white village near by

Then the director, a trained woardener, tells you all that this school of horticulture has accoo

”Wo, and for some years past there have been ardens, planners of private gardens, or landscape gardeners in institutions for wo to enable theo there was little opportunity for the At that time a number of women in and about Philadelphia, who realized the need for thorough teaching in all the branches of horticulture, not anized this school The course is planned to equip woe that will enable thereenhouses or orchards Soardens; so their own greenhouses and raising flowers as a o in for fruit far or bee culture

”In other countries, schools of gardening for wonized place in the educational world In England, Belgium, Ger passed the experie estates or holding responsible positions as directors of public or private gardens, ashorticulturists and lecturers In this country there is a growing deardens, for work on plantations and ardeners Such positions coe salaries, and the comparatively feomen available for them are alraduates has issued athat she is equipped to supply ideas for gardens and personally to plant thee for beauty and service; to take entire charge of gardens and orchards for the season and personally to supervise gardens during the owners' absence; to spray ornamental trees and shrubs, and prune them; and to care for indoor plants andboxes

”She isa success of it, too She has all she can do,” co by

A s, readily tells all that going to a garden school round for which she is responsible We have to plant it, care for it, and be marked on it We all have special care of certain parts of the greenhouse, too, and each has a part of the nursery, the orchard and the vineyard Even the work that is too heavy for us we have to study about, so that we can direct helpers when the time comes We have to understand every detail of it all We have to keep a daily record of our work This is the way to learn how long it takes for different seeds to germinate, and thus atch the developetables You see, the attendance at the school is lireat deal of individual attention and help

”We learn simple carpentry, as part of the course, so that we shall be able to makeboxes, flats, cold frareenhouse, if we had to We are taught the care and raising of poultry, we learn bee culture, and we have a course in landscape gardening There is a course in canning and preserving, too, so that our fruits and berries can be disposed of in that way, if we should not be able to sell theardens of our own that we are all looking forward to”

In the cozy cottage that serves as a dore classrooy, soils and horticultural cheiven There is a staff of instructors, all from well-known universities, and a master far fields and orchards Special lectures are given frequently by experts in various subjects In the cottage is a big, ho and dance in the evening Each girl takes care of her own bedrooarden students are durable, appropriate andThe school colors are the woodsy ones of brown and green, and the working garb is carried out in these colors Brown khaki or corduroy skirts, eight inches froreen sreen, and there is a soft hat for winter and a large shade hat for sue apron with pockets goes with the outfit

All in all, you feel sure, as you go back down the ”old Lime-Kiln road,”

that the motto of the school will be fulfilled in the life of each of its students: ”So enter that daily thou htful and more learned So depart that daily thou mayst become more useful to thyself and to all mankind”

(_Boston Transcript_)

BOYS IN SEARCH OF JOBS

BY RAYMOND G FULLER

One ht of the entrance of the State Free E line of boys--a hundred of the for the doors to open They were of all sorts of racial extraction and of ages ranging through amuffins, street urchins, but sonation So, some anxiously, so soldierly stiff; but others were bubbling over with the spirits of their age, gossiping, shouting, indulging in colt-play When they came out, some hustled away to prospective employers and others loitered in the street

Disappointment ritten all over some of them, from face to feet; on others the inscription was, ”I don't care”

Two hundred boys applied for ”jobs” at the e for summer positions Others were of the vast arrade or thereabouts Several weeks before school closed the office hadof vacation time the ratio was reversed The boy applicants were a hundred or two hundred daily For the two hundred on the day mentioned there were fifty places