Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Raising Violets. [ARTICLE]

Raising Violets.

Many worn-out farms in Virginia have of late been utilized for the growing of violets. The industry is spreading rapidly, and some of the most successful growers are women. They employ small negro boys to carry on the work, which is not laborious. This greater part of the yield is taken by Philadelphia dealers. The great violet growing center, however, according to Dr. B. T. Galloway of the Department of Agriculture, is Poughkeepsie, New York. All violets from this disfind a ready market in New York city, the flowers generally bringing the raisers not less than a cent each. The average yield of a single plant is fifty flowers a year, and with good care a hundred may be obtained. In the Virginia violet farms, after the young off-shoots have been transplanted into open frames, rolling wooden screens are used on the top of the frames to regulate the amount of sunshine which shall be admitted to the plants.—Youth’s Companions.