Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — Dainty Farming. [ARTICLE]

Dainty Farming.

A delightfully dainty kind of farming. more elegantly aesthetic than growing lilies in Bermnda and almost as profitable as raising checks and bank notes, is that of Timothv Hopkins, of Menlo Park. California. In a grove of giant oaks Mr. Hopkins has a five-acre patch of violets of the rarest and most beautiful varieties—double whites, double blues, sky blue and one variety which is blue with a faint dot of red on one of the petals. The violets are planted in rows two feet apart, and under the cool shade and in the leaf mold soil they a Main to perfection. For six months a year the grower ships an average of fifty bunches of violets daily to San Francisco and the returns are not far from the same number of dollars.