Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1920 — Violets Profitable. [ARTICLE]

Violets Profitable.

Violet farming is profitable work. A woman horticulturist whom I know in Hampshire (says an English correspondent) made a good livelihood out of it in pre-war days, and, having now been demobbed, is again installed on her picturesque estate. She cultivates violets of a mammoth size, and of exquisite perfume. Some, are destined for decorative purposes, some for the scent factory, while others find a ready market in the confectionery trade, where crystallized I violets are in large demand.