The sun., 1910-05-08
THREE GIRLS IN A GARDEN
EIRNING MONEY FOR COLLEGE
BY SELLING CTT FLOWERS.

Enterprise started at . Massachusetts
Gardcn the Beginning 0f 1.-THE
WOrk Not Hard FayOrite FloWeFs.
Last sumner W. made SSO0 by selling
oIt flowers 20 summer visitors and this
saason We hops 20 do even hstter.'
said a RiFl whose home h near a summer
r,sort IN Massachusetts, -There aFe throe
u m In tho firm and We hegan three yeaFS
ago 20 raise and eel cut flowers.
We are an Wqrking for money 10 20 20
oollage, and are Aths lms claas az tho high
school We Rot thetdsa u selling cI' aow-
srs 10 the summer colony tecau1e 70 many
u thsm stopped at my mothsr'a frOnt fohos
70 look az tho hOwofs hlooEning IN he oar
dan. II was only an old fashioned Enndsn
and theEe was not a fashionable h0Wer in
the whole plaos. One day a man asked
my mother 10 sell him some q her rcd
ps.ony blooms and she he@itated 20 take
his money. W he gave Il 10 me. After he
was gone I asked her 10 let ma have it 20
Dut with TINT ! had already saved 10 take
mo 10 college.
Telling tho other Eirls about it afterward
somebody W0ndored II other people might
not boy flowers Of M 20 we oOah make
enough for all three Of n 20 90 TO college
We talked about Il for a day or 20, and
finally decitlod 20 as< my mother 10 give Ne
tho sowors IN her sarden and 10 Try 10 sell
thom.
sshs allowed ~ 10 M thros baskets and
within an hour after W. left the ho'iss each
with basket of flowers On her arm We were
an hack again with O'lr hasksts empty. We
had sold every flower 90 the oottsgsrs on
tho bsAch aud hadn't approached more
than a third OF those in Easy walking dis
tancs of our homes In the village.
We had bunched our flowers and re-
gardle.s Of varsity cold thsm 81 10 cents a
bunch. AZ each Of ~ had ten Ounchea Of
COURSE We rouiTned with 81 each. Ny
mother was 20 pleased with or sue
oas,s THAI -hs said she would give ~ tho
blO0ns from her garden one day in each
week pr0vided wO put the money In hank
and used " only 10 take ue 70 college. AZ
tho end of the season 30 many Of the
cottaRera had said they wanted 60 buy
from ~ tho next year that Ws decided 20
plant q aarrlan Of our own.
we rented an acre and a half from fny
mOther At s2s a year tho prico q truck
Nardener had always paid Tor ~. The only
diiorence was that he paid her in advance
While she was willing 20 walt for W until
the end Of the season We paid $40 10
have II broken up and pat In condition 20
plant. and SiS for manure: another s.
went for reeSis and young planta,
We began our work in tbs fall, putting
In a bad % tulips and anOthsg of nhrcisaus
Besides these We planted almost q quarter
Of an acre IN sweet peas. The demand for
swest peas had been 20 great In the sum
mer that We could have sold every hloasOm
on my mothers vines ~ fast a. they
opened and then not had one-tonth Rs
many az tho ooteagerB Wantsd.
In the spring We put IN the othor flow
err, bulbs and sa6ds, working Saturday .
and Ia tho mornings before gong 70 school
and again In the afternoon on our return
Az frst our mothers were afraid that We
would work 20 hard that We would b { 90
tired 70 study, but after our hrat fort
nightly report thsy lot no stay In tho gar
den a. late as We wished.
The narciasns came 20 early that many
Of the blooms went 20 waste because 20 few
% The cottagsrs had come lntoth9 country
for the summer. Our hfst real success
was on Memorial Ulys Wneu WBga anlu our
tulips for N5.00. II was W8tfing toward
the Close Of schOol and We counted ohe
days when We would be ablo 20 spend all
our time working In our garden. After
Memorial Day W0 sold our flowers about
a. fast AZ th0y Openod.
Mother advised ~ 90 follow the plan
We had used the YER before when selling
flowers from her garden, charging 10
cauts a bunch for every variety, whethor
the flowers were BcNrce or plentiful A.
first We had no difficulty In doing all our
picking and punching, but when the sweet
peas began 20 open We had 20 call on some
Og our schOOlmhtes 10 help ua out. We
paid them 10 cents an nour.
@An our flowers had bson planted &C.
onrding tO their color and We continued
20 tssp them apart BY bunching. Our
lunches Of sweet pens contain from forty
"a ffty sprays. according % the number
of blo0ms on the spray. We Try always
% make tho bunches Uniform IN appear-
nnra.
There are four aEters IN a bunch, from
a 20 eiRht clusters % sweet williams, and
from twenty % thirty Shasta daiEica.
Lnstssd % strings 10 uss rubber hands
% hold the bunchea tOEgtho1. and uut
the hands Tar enough down 70 allow the
tops % gprnad out loosely 20 ~ % give
. GTlc1iul ufect.
I'm ne laio summer and early autumn
vhIn tbs d1hllaa cone W. bunch tgo.8QI