Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26

lightly with brush or litter, which
should be removed early in the spring
BY the middle of May, or by Decora-
ton day at any rate, the plants Will be
in bloom and ready to sell at 10 to 20
cents a dozen. Put up a sign on your
fence, with some plants in a box. In
deed, if prettily boxed this price is low,
for strawberry boxes with three good
sized plants will readily sell for 10 cents
and grape tills filled can be sold for 20
cents easily. If time and space permit,
transplant the plants to other beds
four to six inches apart, as this i'm
proves the plant and facilitates selling
and selection.
Most of the good seeds men offer lit
tie leaflets on the culture of various
plants, like pansies, asters and so forth,
Tree to their customers; and when buy
ing seed l ask for 100 or so of these
each year and give one to every person
buying plants, stamping my name, ad-
dress and telephone number on them.
In August, 1908, 1 dug up strip
where peas had just been picked and
made a bed two and one-half feet by
forty feet, sowing three-eighth ounce
of best Giant pansy seed, which cost
$2.75. The time spent in preparing the
bed, watering and sowing was seven
hours.
In the spring of 1909 l sold $26.4O
worth of plants from that one bed at
20 cents a dozen, and. there were per-
haps 200 plants left in the bed which
were too small to be salable in May
and June.
At the same time l sowed a bed two
and one-half by thirty feet to Bells
daisy, giving the same treatment. The
net proceeds of daisies, at cents a
dozen plants, was 49,
Every spring sell aster plants Last
in
April, each about forty feet long, US
ing two and one-half ounces of seed at
81 an ounce, and sold $2330 worth or
plants at 10 cents a dozen, besides fur-
nishing 2500 plants, which we set out
and sold cut flowers from in September
and October, netting about $50. Our lot
is 100 by $50 feet
There are q great many perennial
plants which are in great demand and
which must be sown in July and Aug
ust, and treated as described for pam
sizes. People want perennials, but for
get to plant their seeds at the proper
time, and then are willing to pay 20
cents more a dozen for year-old plants
ready to bloom that spring or summer.
1t is just this human trait of forgetting
and putting off that will mean money
in the pocket of the woman who re-
members, acts and plans ahead at the
right time; for plants take time, ana
if you have the plants they will sell
themselves when the spring comes.
Seven points for permanent business
success depend on:
First-Willingness to work.
Second-Good preparation OF SEED
bed, fertilization and watering.
Third-Covering seed bed till germin-
alton.
Fourth-Buying the best seeds, no
scrimping in price.
Fifth-Giving good measure in selling
plants.
Sixth-Charging moderate prices.
notwithstanding the plants you un-
dertake to raise, knowing their nature
intimately.
The writer has started several other
women along this line. All have been
successful. There is good money IN
this work. All the family can help
some, even the children. We live In
town of $4,000 people. There are four
fiourishing greenhouses, but there
seems no limit to the amount of plants
and cut flowers that can be sold.
After ten years experience and ex-
perimenting, the writer finds that pan
sizes, daisies and asters are the staple
kinds of ANIMALS which will sell best
and pay best. Choose sandy soil and
sunny location for your seed bed. Your
care will do the rest.-Mrs. Jennie u.
7 inc in the Housekeeper