The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-30
WOMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Paris, Nov. 10

Woman and Flowers Happiness and
Money In Horticulture.
Mr.. Henry Baroillet died some years
ago i'll San Francisco, leaving behind
him nothing except the remembrance
among men that he gave up his entire
fortune to his creditors ON the failure of
q bank i'll which he was large stock
holder. Mrs. Baroillet, with the pluck
that crops out i'll woman when it is least
expected, resolved to earn her own liv-
ing as Il florist. She is now one of the
largest florists in the Pacific city, hav-
ing no less than 40 acres under cultiva-
ton. She supplies immense quantities
Of cut flowers to the San Francisco mar
kets and is winning back the fortune
her honest husband gave up. The Sc
cret OF her great success is that she per-
sonally superintends every detail of her
business irrigation, cultivation and the
still more difficult task of finding profit
able sale for her products. The leading
florist of Cleveland is a woman who be-
gan the business Of Horticulture when she
was n girl and III the face of all
kinds of obstacles, of which the op-
position of her own family was not
the least, and carried her chosen work
through to success splendidly. l know
young woman in II mere country vii
lage who earns enough to clothe herself
neatly through the flowers she cultivates
mornings and evenings, as she is engaged
in another occupation during the day.
She has no greenhOuse-only flower pit
in IL town lot-yet she sells all the plants
she can rear and could sell more if she
had more room and more time. She has
worked up that much Of trade in three
OF four years. There are now over 900
women florists in the United States, and
tho business has doubled in the past
three years. Instead of fiocking in great
armies to work for somebody else,
hanging your hat on another mans
peg" as they say, why should not girls
and women who must earn money go
into Horticulture? Of course it will not
do to jump into it, depending OH it from
the first to reap q fortune, but where
and roof to shelter why not feel your
way cautiously toward an occupation
which often nets $4,000 to $4 900 year?
A few specialties are the things to aim
at. If you are near a market, cultivate
roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, vio-
lets, lilies of the valley or ferns and smi-
lax mostly There are books that will
show you how to begin.
If you are ambitious to do some great
thing, do not wait till great oppor-
tunity comes to you. Make the best use
of the small ones that pass you every day
and fit yourself for the great one when
it comes. If you need to earn money, do
not wait tin you can get the highly paid
place which you think you deserve. Take
whatever employment comes nearest to
your hand and do that while you are
waiting for the highly paid place.
There is always a way to do thing if
we only think out what it is.
The largest amor47t of personal earn
ings by one individual in n year is ac-
cumulated by woman, and that woman
Adelina Patti. She gets$5 900 for sin
gle concert.
The superintendent of the Central Dis
pensary and Emergency hospital Of
Washington is q woman, Miss Roberta
West, a trained nurse.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER