The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-05-24
MIGNONETTE.
A Sweet Employment for Ia
vaiian MaideuS
Instruct Them Carefully and Scien-
tifically In Horticulture
and Horticulture.


when done with school, and obliged
many of them to face this not al
ways smooth and sunny work-a day
world?
We plunge at once into the
charming, the poetical, in giving
our counsel, to be needed for no
more than it ia worth, and exclaim:
why, cultivate mignonette!"
We repeat to you, my dear Ha-
waiian girls, cultivate mignonette.
Cui bono? (What is the cost Of it7)
Everybody likes the odor of migno-
nette, everybody will buy a sprig if
they own five cents.
But, you must be taught scien-
tifically as to the preparation of
your soil, and in what kind of ex-
posture to make it thrive.
You must begin, too, with the
best seed; and, you can never neg
lect your work, your care, your I'M
RENTING love and attention to your
garden, your acre of mignonette.
Now, having begun with this
flower q am perhaps meeting with
maiden who owns that much land
somewhere near Honolulu, and who
can form a sort Of partnership with
few school friends who own no
land, but who are willing to hoe.
plant and water, pick, tie up and
selD, 60 on to pansies, bachelors
buttons, violets and all other beau.
| ties.
The natives who are on the street
now, and "may their shadow never
grow less" and may the sweet per-
fume OF their blooms increase until
it is waited throughout this town of
Honolulu, overpowering and killing
the noisome fumes of the rank,
cheap cigarette, and unwholesome,
destructive, poisonous, "doctored"
beer-may God hasten that day
the natives who are on the street
now, we repeat, must pass off and
away to that country where, il there
be flowers, they will require no care;
and the girls now in school can take
their places, and, they ought to take
them, and to bring to them the
fruits (howers) OF skilled labor
practical, learned florists.
What is the use of any school to
these girls (and l take it for granted
that many of them, even at Kameha-
meha, are poor in purse) il it does
not fit them, literally, to earn their
bread7
Yes, true, many of them will
marry, but that is not my "plat.
form;" aud even if they do, they can
sell flowers and be help meet
Teach them how to raise flowers
scientifically, for one thing. If this
is not done the time is close at hand
when florists from the Coast will
handle the job, and "astonish" not
only the poor native, but the white
man, with his "rapid transit" light
ning-express!
1t makes me sad as | write, for |
seem to see it all before me now
Will leis be made by machine? Very
likely.
The work need not to stop al
flowers; but, wherever girl saw a
suitable bit of land to spare she
could put in cutting, and start
grapes, and also figs; and one sue
cess would suggest another.
God help them to wisdom in the
schools.
1t is important in this work O
raising flowers land the same o
fruit) that new ones should from
time to time appear, and also new
colors of sold favorites." In the ole
cities "new flower" is quite Otter
, the subject of conversation. Anc
! we all know that there are grape
we never meet here.
might go into the cultivation o
vegetables, and say, have not seeI