. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 168 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL May to take a medical examination to show physical fitness as well as suitable men- tal preparation. The course is said to be too strenuous for delicate women. As will be seen from the picture of the class in beekeeping, the students are given practical work in the subjects which they are taught. Two hours of practical work to one of books is the rule throughout the course. The work includes floriculture and greenhouse management, landscape gardening, fruit growing, vegetable gardening, poultry keeping, beekeeping, canning and
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 168 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL May to take a medical examination to show physical fitness as well as suitable men- tal preparation. The course is said to be too strenuous for delicate women. As will be seen from the picture of the class in beekeeping, the students are given practical work in the subjects which they are taught. Two hours of practical work to one of books is the rule throughout the course. The work includes floriculture and greenhouse management, landscape gardening, fruit growing, vegetable gardening, poultry keeping, beekeeping, canning and preserving. In many re- spects the work resembles that offered in the Agricultural Colleges, excepting that here the students have practical experience in the apiary, greenhouse or garden through the entire year. The jam kitchen is an interesting place where the products of the school farm are prepared for market. Fruits are made into jellies and preserves, and the honey is bottled for a special trade. While there are similar institutions in Europe, there is no other school in America offering this particular train- ing for women. Miss Elizabeth Leighton Lee, direc- tor of the school, says: "The object of the School of Horticulture is to give to educated women scientific in- struction, combined with all necessary conditions for much actual practice; the course being planned to equip women with the theoretical and practi- cal knowledge that will enable them to manage private and commercial gar- dens or orchards. Thorough training throughout the various seasons of the year eliminates the discouragements of costly inexperience, and fits a woman for a vocation that is healthful, attrac- tive and ; f. c. p. One who has any proper conception of the subject cannot help being thrilled to think what it will mean to the coun- try when schools of this kind become common—as they surely will. A woman who has been through a two-year course at Ambler need have little
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