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Show WOMEN WHO WEAR TROU8ER8. Employed at Gardening, They Have Adopted Sensible Garments, At Kow Gardens, In London, a small, Intelligent, capablo and scientific squad of practical women gardeners is employed. They labor In tho potting sheds, wield the pruning shears, study fertilizers and wear trousers. In summer their nether bifurcated garments are of dark blue linen or brown, as each wearer prefers. Thoy have adopted long breeches strapped closo to the- leg berow tho knees and about tho ankles to pormlt unimpeded stepping in and out among closo-sot plants. A blue smocked frock loosely gathered In by a broad bolt at tho waist forms the remainder of their very sensible uniform. Tho public whon visiting tho famous gardens easily easi-ly catches a gllmpso of them. |