THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



as the large rose growers in our village and 

 several other places on the road to New York 

 made an arrangement with a man some years 

 ago to run a sort of private brigade, using 

 large vans provided with heat, in which the 

 boxes are collected from the different green- 

 houses and driven straight to New York dur- 

 ing the night, and delivered to the wholesale 

 house without any exposure or change of tem- 

 perature, as is the case when shipped by rail- 

 road. Growers living in a neighborhood 

 where there is no such convenience will have to 

 exercise special care in boxing violets in the 

 winter, as they are easily frozen. 



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