Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-10-04
yloLeTs, SWEET VoLETs,
rs Eyer Welcome Whether III Fresh
uto,,n or DuIcet Confectiuns,

r,ss Fer Welcome Whether IN Fresh
Bloom or Dulcet Confections.
From the middle of October until Easter
.,onsonds of dollars worth of violets ere
t-onrht into New York from Long Island,
Sew Jersey and Westchester county. The
forcipr of violets for autumn, winter and
t,rIy spring has grown steadily for the past
i; rsors and scarce even the rose is more
rorcrally in demand than the violet. A
icrra mart of the v...t crop is grown by
tmoll gardeners, who carry their product
y market in baskets. You may see re-
sCoctable looking Scotchmen and Germans
ccming into town every morning by all the
ysriols lines, each bearing upon his arm
such basket
There is steady sale for the violet, be.
couse convention prescribes it as the only
fover that may be worn by persons in
nourning Besides, violets are used in pro.
insion at funerals. Sometimes from 5000
10 5000 violets are heaped upon coffin.
As they wholesale at from $40 to $50 thou.
sand and retail at double the wholesale
prce, violets cut considerable figure in
Imgny an undertaker's bill.
3 All the growers of violets in this region
! have been troubled OF late years with q
MYSTERIOUS pest that ravages the plants.
The favorite double purple violets suffer
most, the double white somewhat less, and
+ the single almost not at all. 1t happens al
times that all the violets in one greenhouse
will be attacked while those in another
close beside it will escape. 1t attacks even
yiOlets growing in cold frames, though on
the whole these are harder than hothouse
plants The violet is lover Of cool air.
and in this climate blooms all winter long
and under glass without artificial heat, and
. the blossoms are seldom killed by frost if
the frame is covered at night. But the fore
ing process swells the crop for market, and
perhaps more violets are raised in hot
houses than in cold frames. The native
wild violet frequently retains it's leaves
through the winter ard seems to feel the
earliest pulse of spring.
ViOets are costlier at the Christmas holi
days and at Easter than at any other sea.
son. The white yiolets, though less popu.
lar than the purple, usually fetch quite as
much, since they are raised in smaller
quantities. The single violet fetches II
smaller price than either. The bunch of
yiOets that the young man sends to his
girl seldom costs less than half dollar
and may cost three times as much.
The costliest form which the violet takes
is in candy. 1t isnot necessary for the pur
.po of the confectioner that his violets be
.d ( freshest, and the proportion of cheap
sugar to costly yiolets in a pound of the
candied blossoms is large, but if you buy
this dainty at fashionable shop you'll pay
at least 81 for a half pound box. Properly
brought up young women who have been
taught that they should discourage young
men from making costly presents, even OF
such triiles, pretend to regard the candied
violet, save in very small quantities, as an
ostentatious extravaganza, but no girl ever
really resents gift of this con9ection, no
matter how large the boX-New York Sun.