Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-04-09
Money in Flowers
(By Jesse White.)

Why is it that so few women
Of our country care to have and
cultivate flowers? What is there
that adds more to a home than
pretty flowers? There is pleas
ure in it as well as profit. Often
you will see girls that have a
nice home and plenty of money
to spend put it all in fine clothes
to wear to make a big show and
not have box flower on the
place, no vines around the gallery
and the whole yard bare with the
exception of a few old jonquils
and flag lilies, and they will claim
that flowers will not do well in
their yards when they have
never had the trial.
But we find just such people
every day of life. l have no.
ticed from close observation that
the prettiest flowers and flower
yards you will find among the
poor people, the ones that are
least able to afford it. The love
of flowers is a sure sign of good
taste and refinement. You will
find girls who don't love flowers
are perfect blanks.
There is pleasure and profit,
too, in the growing and cultivat-
ing of flowers. There is lady
here in our town that is making
money selling flowers. Look at
the women florists we have now
who are making an Independent
fortune at the business. | read
of a widow lady and her daugh-
ter that were making money
raising bulbs of different kinds
of flowers for some Northern
florist, who was paying them a
good price for all they could
raise. That is easy work. Why
can't all poor girls that have to
work try raising certain flowers
for sale.
If they live near some small
town, where there is no florist,
they can find ready sale for all
the plants and cut flowers that
they can raise. Almost all plants
that live longer than one season
thicken or stool at the base so
as to become clump of shoots.
All such plants are readily and
rapidly, increased by division.
The spring is the best time of all
to do this. The smallest slip to
which a root is attached will
grow and form a new plant. A
single clump of year-old helian-
thus multiforus plenus can be
pulled apart into a hundred
pieces, and every inch length of
it's root suckers will grow. AL
most any perennial can be di-
vided into at least half dozen
parts, which will be as strong as
the parent one before the season
is over. One only needs to get a
modest start of perennials to
have a generous quantity in a
short time by plant or root divis-
ion alone.
Papaver is an exception to the
rule. This perennial is ever
green through the winter, but
dormant through midsummer.
August is the best time to divide
it. Among violets from runners
may be planted out at any time
when once rooted. The majority
of pot plants are increased by
cutting. A few are multiplied
by natural division. Chrysan-
themums and primula forbesi
neeu only pulling apart in spring
to get a good start for them.
The smallest slip will grow. Ma
ranta ferns and lycopodiums
may be pretty freely divided at
reporting. A great many plants
root readily in water. such as the
oleander, heliotrope, colens, pc
tunias, saliva, justina, lemon
verbena, nasturtium, gloxinia
and madeira vine will all root
very easily in water. There is
profit as well as pleasure in
growing flowers to sell. I would
like to hear from some one else
on this subject.