Later there may be added:—
Forestry, maple sugar growing, preserving of fruits and vegetables, and such other subjects as may be called for.
There is in Pennsylvania no other school of this character. The Pennsylvania State College at State College, Centre County, offers valuable and excellent instruction, but, like the other state colleges, lays most of its stress on agriculture rather than on horticulture, and gives great attention (and necessarily so) to experimental farm work, and to seed and soil tests. Incidentally we hope to profit by these experiments and to help to spread abroad knowledge of the improvements and better methods which their experience may have proved beneficial.
We shall be glad to enter into communication with others interested in the subject, and we look for the interest and support of Pennsylvanians and many others.
Miss Jane B. Haines, Secretary and Treasurer, Cheltenham, Pa.
THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS, ST. LOUIS, MO.
The Trustees of the garden offer theoretical and practical instruction in gardening, with a certain number of competitive scholarships. These scholarships are not open to women. The course of instruction can, however, be taken by women who are ready to bear their own expenses and pay the nominal fee of $25 per annum.
Only one young woman has so far completed the course. This lady, Miss Eda A. Sutermeister, 1637, Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri, has become an accomplished landscape architect. One other girl went through the greater part of the work. She subsequently took charge of the floriculture at an industrial school for women, after extensive experience in practical floriculture. In addition to these two, a number of ladies have taken various courses of study included in the outline, or have received practical training in gardening at the Botanical Garden, covering short periods of time, and limited parts of the subject.
The following is taken from the last report:—