229 HORTICULTURE AND 



THE MARKET 



studied the best methods of growing, got the 

 best possible soil and a greenhouse. They have 

 made it a big enterprise. You can do as well. 



Mrs. Reynolds says: "I am only a begin- 

 ner. The first year I had a small house of 3000 

 plants and was so successful that I have begun 

 now on a larger scale. I have 210 x 165 feet 

 of land on which I hope some day to have six 

 houses 25 x 150 feet each. I have now two, 

 of 5000 plants each. Of course the market is 

 here, as all our double violets came from New 

 York and however beautiful they were, they had 

 lost their perfume on a long journey." 



W. J. Harrison, a druggist at Lakewood, N. 

 J., has a violet frame on the ground in front of 

 his show window; it gets enough radiated heat 

 from the cellar to give a winter crop of violets 

 with almost no attention, and violets sell remark- 

 ably high in Lakewood. You may make a start 

 in some such way and grow up to greenhouses. 



For women who like country life and wish to 

 work at home, violet growing offers very great 

 inducements. The work is easy, but constant 

 attention and great care are necessary. 



