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AND A LIVING 



little capital being needed. Few among the 

 leaders in floriculture started with more than 

 $500, and many of them with less. A dozen 

 men who have been in the employ of one New 

 York florist, some of whom got only twenty dol- 

 lars a month at first and afterwards started in 

 a small way for themselves, are now making a 

 substantial living. 



A lover of flowers can succeed in this busi- 

 ness better than in any other with as little capi- 

 tal. In the last ten years the business has 

 doubled, and while many have gone into it, the 

 profit they are making shows that supply has 

 not equaled the demand and that is not likely to 

 be overdone soon. 



An acre of soil under glass pays fifty times 

 as much as an acre out-doors. There are eight 

 to ten million square feet of glass in the United 

 States devoted to carnations alone, and about 

 seven million dollars worth of this one flower 

 are sold each year. 



Mrs. H. C. Reynolds and Miss Nina F. How- 

 ard started a violet farm at Glencoe, Illinois, in 

 1905. Their friends predicted failure, but they 



