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the seed. The few extra boxes I needed, be- 

 sides those I had on hand, were kindly supplied 

 to me by my grocer. For lack of benches the boxes 

 were placed flat on the ground, or on other boxes. 

 I was not overly particular about the soil in the 

 bottom of the boxes, simply mixing with it a small 

 amount of manure. I took the precaution, how- 

 ever, to screen the top soil to the depth of about 

 two or three inches. 



Then came the planting. Since I had only a 

 limited quantity of seed, I decided to sow it very 

 thinly in shallow drills. It would have been easier 

 of course, to have sown it thickly and then thinned 

 out the seedlings afterward, but I wanted to make 

 every seed count. Two packages of pansy seed 

 were the first sown and all the seeds germinated 

 well. Then columbine followed, larkspur, Shasta 

 daisies, and pinks. My columbines were very slow 

 in coming up but, once they had appeared they 

 grew rapidly. 



I aimed to get at least half my seed into the 

 ground as early as possible so that I might not 

 have more work than I could handle when it came 

 time for the transplanting. In March I sowed 

 first a package of gaillardia seed, then one of 

 coreopsis, and then three varieties of cosmos. 

 Toward the last of the month salvia and aster 

 seeds were planted. 



After all my seeds were finally in the boxes and 

 some were far on the road to becoming real plants, 

 I began my campaign for selling. At first I spoke 

 to my friends about my plants and received from 

 them many orders. But I soon found that only 

 my annuals were selling. The reason was that 

 most of the perennials were only names to my 

 friends, and even when they actually knew the 

 flowers themselves, they did not connect the names 

 with them. Something was needed to educate 

 the public! 



I had in my own garden some plants of the long- 

 spurred yellow columbine, a fine bed of Shasta 

 daisies, gaillardias, and some coreopsis. During 

 the month of April, the columbines, gaillardias, 

 and Shasta daisies all came into bloom. I picked 

 the choicest of their blooms, placed them on exhibi- 

 tion in a bookstore window, and put with them a 

 notice that good plants for setting out would be 

 furnished on certain dates, the plants being guaran- 

 teed to give similar blooms the following year. My 

 name, address, and telephone number were printed 

 on the card and it was not long before the orders 

 began to come in. Before the end of the season 

 I had sold all my plants but I could promise that 

 more orders would be filled in the fall. 



For in the meantime I had worked steadily with 

 my seedlings. As soon as they became crowded 

 in the boxes I set them out into a square of open 

 ground. In this way they received good growth 

 and even the weak plants were given a chance. 

 Whenever possible I tried to sell them late in the 

 afternoon so that they would have the night in 

 which to recover from their change of place. In 

 selling the plants or delivering them, I put them 

 into rather heavy pasteboard boxes. In a few 

 cases I sold them in small fruit boxes. 



RETURNS FROM ONE SEASON 



My active season of work lasted from February 

 15th to May 15th, three months, and during that 

 time I took in, as nearly as I could figure, $79.65. 

 My original outlay was $3.20 and subsequent 

 ones were no more than $5 so that I had, in round 

 numbers, $70 to represent my three months' labor. 

 When I consider the small amount of time spent 

 upon the work, and my lack of experience in many 

 details, I am convinced that my plants of that 

 spring paid for their existence. 



Here is a tabulated account of one season's 

 labor: 



Asters, 



6 pkgs. 



$ 



.60 



24 doz 



plants, $ .35 



$ 8.40 



" 



3 



" 





■ 75 



12 " 



• So 



6.00 



Cosmos, 



3 



" 





• 30 



IS " 



• 35 



sn 



Shasta daisy 



I 



pkg- 





. 10 



6 " 



1. 00 



6.00 



Pansies, 



2 



pkgs. 





.40 



8 " 



• SO 



4.00 



Pinks, 



I 



pkg. 





■ OS 



4 " 



1. 00 



4.00 



Salvia, 



I 







. 10 



5 " 



1. 00 



5-oo 



Larkspur, 



I 



" 





• 25 



5 " 



1. 00 



S.00 



Coreopsis, 



I 



" 





10 



10 



1 .00 



10.00 



Gaillardia, 



I 







10 



6 " 



1. 00 



6.00 



Columbine, 



3 





$3 



• 45 

 .20 



20 " 



1 .00 



20.00 





$79 6S 



California. 











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