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Maine towns, although not exactly in the country. She does 

 the work herself, even to shoveling seventeen tons of coal each 

 winter. She has everything planned and built in a way to make 

 it as easy as possible. 



She tells me that her greenhouse, which is sixty feet long, 

 cost her $600, but she paid for it and the running expenses, 

 during the first six years. She makes a specialty of raising 

 carnations and roses in winter and bedding plants in the spring. 

 One Marchiel Neil rose pruned last March and at Decoration 

 time, sold five hundred blossoms, and cut over one thousand 

 within three weeks. The plant was originally a La Marc rose 

 and grafted at two years. 



Another woman in the town of Turner began by raising 

 tomatoes, pansies, etc., in her kitchen windows for her neigh- 

 bors. Gradually she worked into cold frames, then hot beds, 

 and as her business increased she built a greenhouse and worked 

 up a good paying trade. 



I know one lady who lives in a village where there are quite 

 a lot of summer boarders who has bought gloxinia bulbs in 

 the winter at $1.00 per dozen and had them well grown and 

 in bloom in the summer and sold them at fiftv cents each. 



II. SMALL FRUITS. 



The raising of small fruits has also been successfully carried 

 on by women. Those who have attended some of our past 

 pomological meetings have heard very interesting papers by 

 women who have had practical experience in that line. I was 

 visiting one day in one of our villages when a girl about four- 

 teen years old drove along the street with an express wagon 

 filled with boxes of cultivated raspberries. Evidently it was a 

 regular day for her trip, for it seemed as though the women 

 at every house were watching for her, and without being obliged 

 to even offer her berries for sale, they were soon al! gone at 

 fifteen cents per box. 



I recently visited a farm in Livermore where a young couple 

 have built a new house and started into the small fruit business. 

 This year from their Cuthbert raspberry bed, twelve rods in 

 length and two rods in width, they picked 928 quarts ; from 

 Snyder blackberries, ten by two rods, 786 quarts. 



