Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — Flower Growing. [ARTICLE]

Flower Growing.

Persistence, patience and perseverance are the three P’s that spell success in the home culture of flowers. If you have never tried flower-growing you may expect to meet many failures; professional florists do not always succeed, and I am sure we hear enough about poor crops from our friends, the farmers. Why, then, should we expect every seed we put in the ground to grow? Of course we must expect failures, and it is in overcoming them, In studying the nature, the habits, and the requirements of different plants, that half the pleasure of floriculture lies. The wise beginner will read the floriculture page of a good magazine, will talk to her friends and will confine her efforts at first to some of the standard plants whose habits are well known and easily learned.—Womankind.