The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-13
A VISITING GARDENER,
1t Is a Health-Giving and Highly
Profitable Employment

New York, Aug. 11.-"Weu, 1 suppose YOU
have never given my work name" Miss
Della Plat replied when asked about her
profession.
Il am % years old and have been en-
gagged in the work for nearly five years,
and last year cleared 81, S56" Here Miss
Platt laughed and continued Now I
think l deserve some praise for answering
those two questions before they were ask
ed and telling the truth in each instance.
My father was Jersey farmer, and I,
rs the eldest of five girls, was being edu-
Gated for a teacher Just a few months
before l was TO have begun a course in a
normal college my father died very sud
denly. We found we had nothing free
from mortgage excepting our household
furniture and one horse. 1t was the mid
die of the season, and the crop on which we
depended had 10 be worked and gathered.
l was the eldest OF the family, so there was
nothing for me but to take up the farm
where our father had left it.
when the end OF the year came and II
was discovered I had managed well, that
is, had paid the interest on our mortgaged
property, kept the girls at school and had
a small surplus laid by, Il was decided I
run the place another twelve months
EnlnrGing Her Business.
ITO make q long story short soon after
the purchase of another horse a gentleman
living in South Orange rode over my farm
and was so pleased with its appearance
that he asked why l couldn't come and
break up his garden. He,it seems asked
the question in Jest, but found me willing
10 take the matter up i'm a business way
l went over the next week and laid out
and planted his garden. He was pleased
with my work, and being man inclined to
praise his own, fell to Dragging about that
garden before the seeds came up. The re-
suit IF his boasting induced several per-
sons who had never thought of raising
their own vegetables to hunt me up and
offer their work.
Fortunately that season proved a good
growing one. and owners of the gardens
had planted and continued to work were
wen pleased with the result In a financial
way as well as having enjoyed the pleas
ure Of picking their own vegetables.
Many Patrons.
Before the beginning of a second eason
l made calls on a number of persons liv-
ing In the Oranges and Montclar. nud
engaged 20 take the planting and working
Of their kitchen gardens for the coming
season Don't think 1 went 10 the wealth
lest families They are the very people
a woman wishing to engage in this work
must avoid. Such people are able TO en-
pIoy a special gardener and have a stable
run Of horses 90 do any sort OF work thew
fancy. / applied TO those who kept neith-
er horse nor man, but whose lot contained
a good garden plot. In the majority of
Instances this was not a very big piece
of land, aud had been allowed to run to
weed and was, therefore. useless to the
owner
81 take my gardens in rotation, That IL
! break up the whole OF them in the au-
tumu. in the spring / give them the sec
cud working over, then / Ro back. lay
them all Off, plant the earlier varieties Of
seeds and 50 my gardens all come on to-
gethor.
where the Profits Come I'm.
"As ! always supply the seeds and
plants. I get them az wholesale prices
watch greatly reduces the cost. / have
my own greenhouses ana forcing beds SO
I raise AZ the plants used Then loo l
make ou my farm all the compost needed
ns fertilizer. ] may also add that there
are many vegetables the seeds OF witch
are saved each year. But that Is a de-
partmcni looked after by my younger sis.
Ter who declares that she intends becon-
Ing "a seed farmer
ms The result Of my i've years work
on our farm and as visiting gardner