Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-05

plenty Of pluck and a little money ana
success is bound to come.
1t is really much better In any cas-
that the business should be maze 10
pay for Itself, for no other incentive
50 "pricks our courage to the sticking
point" and perseverance Is an important
factor in the equation.
A SMALL CAPITAL.
With a few hundred dollars a woman
could in small town, build coupe
Of greenhouses and stock them with
plants. The strong. hardy plants would
be better to start with. and they are also
good growers eraniums. verbenas, hei-
otropes. lilies. oNalis. and primroses WIN
these she could do nice little business
and as the returns began 10 come IN ior
her investment she could enlarge her
borders. and building yet another house
might stock II with roses, which, II wei
crown. are always salable and cOmmand
high prices. &,
4 nit for early pansios and violets IS
also a good thing. These must he pro-
pagated in February, and grown IN Il
cool place until they are planted out Oh
doors-possibly in April, sometimes III
NJ. n tho season is very cold. Trans
plant again I'm the early fall, ere the
frosts nip them, TO a comfortably warm
house. and If wcll-tended, Kept moist put
never oyerwatercd, the ViOlets and pansles
viii hiring good revenue. This is charming
work for A woman. easy. light, and sure
Of success. Then the disbuddinS OF cdthd-
lions is a pleasant task only ntled LOT
a womans hand. but, as one Watches
the florist with big, clumsy ringers so
delicatelv handling and breaking away
the tender. new shoots. and with his WIDE
fat thumb pressing them down into the
soft. rich loan to make new plant, one
feels a conviction that at least ne knows
how. and that woman, even with her
small fingers could have been no more
daintily careful.
A house for carnations Is also paying,
for they are almost endless boomers IL
well cared for That IS II kept free from
weeds during the summer, when they are
in the field. and also kept well topped.
one woman, who had been an Invalid,
took up a few years ago the work OF a
| florist. hoping 10 acquire health anu
strength and money. She succeeded IN
| doing all three. At first she only under
! took the lightest part Of the work us
| budding slipping. and transplanting the
| flowers. working in the warm, loamy SOIL
spending almost every day for months IN
| the. open air. and in the winter planting
/ and training the flowers I'm the green
| houses: cutting the blossoms twice ana
| three times a day, and packing them Tor
| shirment From an ethereal creature OF
| seventy mounds weight she developed INTO
| a strong. healthy woman weighing in the
| neighborhood Of twice that, and second
| best TO that was complete success IN the
| line of Horticulture Beginning with only
| n shed greenhouse. they truth compels
| the admission of q husband in the case)
| have to-day thirteen large greenhouses
| and one of the largest frames IN the west
| ,,r,v.inq pansics not to be eXcelled IN
| that the ''l OOglpr
| Poet" might have had In mind when ne
| wrote the lines
"As bloesomy swate as the bloom Of the
The angels might sniff wild their delicate
| noses"
POSSIBILITIES IN TOWN.
| In q city il is harder to start as a
| florist, as one must needs put so much
| money in a place for flowers ana must
| also have Dubious plants, palms, etc
| Eut with willing hands and good. thrifty
| well-grown plants a woman could 90
| urof.qble business from the beginning.
| The refinement Of a woman's taste ana
| touch i'm decorating, and the arrangement
Of flowers would so long way towards
| success.
The heavy work must Of course, be
| performed by men. but once the houses
are under way they could be operated
| except Tor the furnaces-entireIy ny "o-
| men.
| Come with me through the houses on
| Rose Moor" once "A wild waste OF
marshy land, II has blossomed into
beauty, and through the long glass-houses
the chrysanthemums nod gayly, and the
carnations haunt themselves in colors
quite as GORGEOUS though they may be
eclpsed as 70 size. The perfume OF the
violcts float in from tiny side-house.
and beside them are rows and rows oil
mignonette. just coming into bloom The
temperature in all the houses is different
under the roof OF the chrysanthemum-
house the thermometer registers eighty
or eighty-hve degrees. The carnations are