HOUSE AND GARDEN 
A 
P R I L , 
1912 
bunches of radishes at forty cents a dozen 
—$10.20 in all from the three sash. These 
were ready ten days before any of the 
outside stuff, but with this too they had 
the satisfaction of getting the earliest in 
the neighborhood. Mr. Goldman, the 
butcher with whom they dealt in Priestly, 
was glad to take all these things, and very 
pleasant about giving them pointers as to 
how to tie them up, prepare them, etc., as 
Raffles had had more experience in grow¬ 
ing things than in marketing them. 
Another exciting event of the ]\Iay sea¬ 
son was the “run” they had upon the 
greenhouse for a week previous to Deco¬ 
ration Day. Raffles had insisted on put¬ 
ting a small part of the meager sum avail¬ 
able for greenhouse expenses into flower¬ 
ing plants of one sort and another, and 
had about 150 geraniums and small sup¬ 
plies of several other plants in stock. 
Alantell had not approved very heartily of 
this side line, but thought it best to let 
Raffles go ahead and try things out as 
long as he was such a ceaseless worker 
and seemed interested in this hobby. 
Great was Mantell’s surprise, upon 
being called in from the garden one day 
to attend to the needs of a lady customer 
■—Raffles having gone over to the Squire’s 
to return his post-hole digger—to find 
that practically all these fancy things had 
been cleaned out. For a week he had 
been very busy and had not happened to 
take any notice of things in the green¬ 
house. This sudden disappearance of 
things he was at a loss to account for, 
until Raffles explained to him how many 
purchasers they had had, and reminded 
him how the numerous small orders for 
vegetable plants had counted up. 
All this set him thinking quite seriously, 
and upon further investigation in town, 
where he found out that his friend Gold¬ 
man had bought ten to fifteen dozen gera¬ 
niums and dozens of pansies every spring 
from a florist some miles distant, and sold 
them all without trouble from a stand at 
his door. Mantell decided that this end 
of the business was worth expanding. 
They could easily have disposed of sev¬ 
eral times the quantity of early vegetables 
they had grown under glass, and were 
sold out clean on cabbage, cauliflower and 
lettuce plants, and this all in the first sea¬ 
son, and with a brand new business. It 
was very evident that another year they 
would have to have more “glass.” 
With the beginning of the marketing of 
the garden vegetables the financial situa¬ 
tion was beginning to be relieved a little 
—they had been through pretty hard times. 
There had been times when, in spite of 
the closest economy, there had not been 
cash for the grocer and butcher—times 
when if Raffles had been drawing his full 
wages, they would have been in distress¬ 
ing poverty. As it was, Mantell’s little 
capital was eaten up, and they owed some 
bills—besides $75 to the Squire for fer¬ 
tilizer. At the most critical time they had 
let two of the four pigs go to Goldman— 
they had cost $8 and brought, after about 
four months, $19.60, which, needed for 
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Sold to one man in nine years is the enviable repu¬ 
tation of THE ROSEDALE NURSERIES. A trial 
order brought larger orders from year to year, cul¬ 
minating in January, 1912, with an order for 
10,000 Evergrreens 
This man is one of the keenest business men in 
New York. If you are half as shrewd you will send 
for our catalogue, No. 33, which gives prices with 
sizes up to twenty feet. 
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59 Market Street, Salisbury, Md. 
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tion, a hnilt-in hath can he installed in conjunction with 
the needle and sho^^■er bath. This arrangement gives a 
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bather the ample room required for a vigorous shower bath. 
The tiled walls and glass door are water tight. 
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