. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . pes gently to thesoutheast and northwest, so that I can get two crops(if early vegetables on the southeast slope, and Peachorchards and later crops on the northwest. The branchesin which I am most interested and engaged are flowers,vegetables, and fruits. Peach orchards occupy a largecorner of my farm and have been a source of the trees arc young, vegetables and small fruitscan he grown between the rows, thus using all the avail-able land. Apples, Pears, Plums and
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . pes gently to thesoutheast and northwest, so that I can get two crops(if early vegetables on the southeast slope, and Peachorchards and later crops on the northwest. The branchesin which I am most interested and engaged are flowers,vegetables, and fruits. Peach orchards occupy a largecorner of my farm and have been a source of the trees arc young, vegetables and small fruitscan he grown between the rows, thus using all the avail-able land. Apples, Pears, Plums and small fruits I alsogrow for profit. -V number of Peach growers in mylocality have lifted mortgages from their farms bymeans of their Peach crops. It is not my aim or purpose to discourage or causeany of the thousands of women in this country who areengaged in other vocations to be dissatisfied with theirlot, but it is to show those who are endeavoring to solvethe question of self-support, that outdoor occupationsfor women can be made profitable, provided they bernrried on with steady personal application, without. Christmas basket, containing Pandanus and Primula obconica and afterward carry out plans with perseverance, gar-dening will be found a successful, pleasant, and con-genial occupation. Women are beginning to think aboutthese things. Many of them could do much better atfloriculture than to work for the very low wages paidfor womans work in the cities. It is not so much laborand muscle nowadays, as brains and machinery. Dontdo your work first and your thinking afterwards, butthink and plan first and then work. It is said that the wives and sisters of the soldiers ofthe Twentieth Kansas Regiment, when the men were inthe Philippines, went out into the deserted fields towork. The crops needed attention and there was no oneelse to give it, as nearly all the members of the regimentwere farmers, and there were hundreds of girls at workon the farms. It is hoped that women will
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