Certainly, they could engage in that business just as appropriately as in any other. Indeed it would be much better to do so than to engage in making shirts at 75 cents a dozen while finding their own thread ; but there is one embarrassment that many would find it very hard to overcome - the lack of capital to get a start.

Do you find Oxalis Deppei as pretty as the picture ? I did not; there was a narrow, dark bar, not very conspicuous, instead of a large colored spot on the leaflets.

Do you raise a few shallots for early onions ?

Has any one cultivated the wild dicentra, the "Squirrel Corn," of beach and maple wood ? If not, why not ? Is it not one of our loveliest northern wild flowers ? -

Mrs. M. R. A. C, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Cato, who died 150 B. C. was a practical farmer. The truck farmers, of Long Island, are, in a measure, following his teachings: He said, "Study to have a great dung-heap. Carefully preserve your dung. When you carry it out, make clean work of it ; break it up fine; carry it out during the autumn".

A Cheap Border of Flowers can be had by planting ten cents' worth of seeds of the good, old-fashioned Four O'clock. Sow them a foot apart in a drill, and the ten cents' worth will be sufficient for a row 400 feet long. They will make plants two feet high, and the row will be as compact as a hedge, and in early morning and evening as handsome a display as it is possible to make. In cloudy mornings the flowers will keep open until noon, rivaling in beauty a collection of the choicest azaleas. No two plants will be alike, and on the same plant there will be a great diversity of color.

Women In Horticulture #1

Foreign publications have taken up the question of the work of women in horticulture, which has been so strongly agitated by the horticultural press of this country. A writer in the London Garden suggests that if women are to enter this field, they be induced to don a costume to suit the occupation. He contends, and rightly, that the habiliments of the gentler sex are so constructed that few of the positions of the body necessary to horticultural pursuits out of doors can be assumed without positive pain to the wearer. Here is evidently an opportunity for an advocate of "dress reform".