Show I 1 is tinaa to pick greens or rather dig greens traveling the rural roada la connecticut just now especially in the neighborhood of cities one sees children and women on the green lots by the roadside digging in the ground just ss fast as they can each one carries a willow arm basket or tin pail and a hort bladed case the little squads chatter and laugh and talk gossip and now and then one brills trills the refrain of a popular song they are not skylarking or merrymaking they we digging greens red and yellow dock dandelions burdock and plantain for home consumption everybody wants greens now and trade in them ia very lively in a few weeks the garden greens cultivated dandelions or spinach will be ready to market and then the popular demand for wild greens will cease most of the will greens gathered by connecticut women and children are dandelions and dock but some of the bolder ones nimble footed maidens put on rubber boots nd slouch hats penetrate into the tangled swamps leaping from one quaking tussock to another and harvest a bushel of wet and shining cowslips a day about decayed old stumps in forest dales thrives and they pluck it in handfuls at lao beginning of tho season dandelion greens are worth forty or fifty cents a peck in the market and the re tail dealers sell them for fifty or sixty cents later the price runs down to twenty five beats a peck cor new york sun |