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plants, which are just the right size for transplanting, 
should have far better success than those who buy the 
blooming plants. 
Every flower lover has a warm spot in his heart for 
pansies. If people would just get in the spirit of it in 
late summer or early fall and plant seed of a giant 
strain, they would not need to buy the attractive pansy 
baskets in the spring. They would have better pansies 
in their own gardens without having to give them a set¬ 
back by transplanting them when they are full grown. 
It is hard for people to get the planting fever in the fall, 
however, so it is these irresistible blooming plants for 
which there is the greatest demand. If one raises a fine 
quality of pansies, there is almost no limit to the quan¬ 
tity that can be disposed of at good prices from early 
spring till Decoration day is passed. As our saleslady 
said a few days ago, “Why, I could almost sell weeds at 
ten cents apiece before Decoration day, but now people 
think five cents a plant is too much.” Some years the 
sales keep up till the Fourth of July, though. 
Easter, Mothers’ day and Memorial day are the sea¬ 
sons of largest pansy sales. At these times, aside 
from the plants we put on the market, I pick blooms 
from my seed-plants and make quantities of bouquets. 
I put six paper drinking cups in a pansy basket and a 
bouquet in each cup. They keep nicely that way, and 
look very attractive. On ordinary days people buy one 
or two bouquets; but just before Decoration day they 
will take the basket, cups and all, for 90 cents. 
Except at these special times I don’t usually make 
bouquets, for they almost spoil the sale of the plants. 
People say to our saleslady, “I want you to order for 
me three plants like this red one in this bouquet, four 
