Plan No. 429. Keeping a Flower Bed
For several months in the year, an energetic woman in a northern city paid the family grocery bills from the proceeds of a small flower bed in the back yard of her home.
She took especial care of this flower bed, as she realized that most of her neighbors were negligent in such matters, and would be glad of an opportunity to buy flowers from her later in the season. And she guessed right, for they were soon coming from all directions to buy her flowers. She had all varieties, which showed the effects of careful culture, and she charged good prices for them. For weddings, funerals, etc., she made up special designs, and sold them for several dollars each.
Among the rare flowers she raised were orchids, which brought very high prices in the winter, and she felt well paid for the labor and care she had bestowed upon her small flower bed.