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Show I ' - . 'W.- - k 1..-: ' -v V-CV. - Rhododendrons at the Feet of Hemlocks ploiimjro and profit, for It Dot only Includes a study of plants nnd flowers, but of many oilier brunches, which are more or less closely allied and which, even though not' gone Into deeply, must still prove of a distinctly dis-tinctly edacutionnl value. LANDSCAPE architecture, the principles prin-ciples of it. is a study that has lc?a guarded carefully from the lay mind by the majority of the women who have taken it up, ami most of them will tell jon that it is for the reason that it Is I such a tremendous subject that no girl ould take it up superficially without do-ng do-ng iojury to the profession. And un- Miss Marian Coflln is another woman who Is working along the btmc lines. i TO indicate the extent of the approval ap-proval pluced by men on the work of women landscape architects the (experience of one woman in the West Is interesting. One of the largest Western railroads employs tho services of an expert ex-pert woman landscape architect by the year to lay out the plots about the stations sta-tions and at the big roil road terminals, ifcl.e. bus had placed :,t lup disposal n private pri-vate car, which she makes use of the entire en-tire lime travelling along the line und w an artistic sense. "For," she Hays, "one must have the artistic, as well us ihe scientific, side to be n truly .successful landscape archltis-t. A hindscapn archl-l I ted buildH up her picture much the same as mi artist does. Instead of pigment slle uses tro'n, shrubs, &c. un.J unless i she V.irows a good picture and Is able to j work from the meutal plane she won't be U Nlll i e: s." I It is the general impression here in j America that one can't have a garden j worthy the name unlcx.s one has an acre jof land at b'liHl, but iu Kiigliiinl. where jtic-arly every home boiusla of a smull plot |