GARDENING FOR WOMEN.
11l England gardening is being taken up with renewed zest since the war. and many women are seeing in it means of a profitable career. For educated girls who have specialised in botany scientific flower (ultuie offers great possibilities. Great profits are often made by the inventors of new varieties of flowers. Then there is the study of the way in which plants may he influenced and made? to assume do-i:e 1 characteristics .by special arrangements for •living sunlight "or shade, by chemical treatment, by stimulation with el'ctiwity or subjection" to violet lays, etc. Orowth. foliage, blossoms and s «nt m;iy he greatly modified by such means.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17889, 17 September 1921, Page 4 (Supplement)
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110GARDENING FOR WOMEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17889, 17 September 1921, Page 4 (Supplement)
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