| Show Peony Farm Provides Employment for Many ManyIn In Illinois Village WEST CHICAGO Morgans Morgan's Morgan's Morgans peony farm four and one half acres covered with 2200 peony plants and an unaccountable number number number num num- ber of ot ants is an example of ot what can be do done e by private initiative hard work and It is also an example of ot small community enterprise which offers employment to a great many perSons persons per per- sons if for only a short time each year In the past 13 years Dave Morgan Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- gan and his wife have built bunt up their business from a start that Included included In in- eluded 1860 plants plants and and no ants When the Morgan purchased the 10 acres of which the peony farm farmis is a part it marked the end of ot a along along along long search for the right type of ot soil but the ant problem came up immediately Peonies require ants the same as most flowers require bees for pollination pollination polli poll nation purposes Finding himself less ant-less Mr Morgan obtained four big shoe boxes of the insects from Elmhurst Now there is no ant problem The Morgans have a business with witha a two weeks' weeks season During those two weeks they hire crews of ot school schoolgirls schoolgirls girls and boys to cut the peony buds bunch them and store them In hi an refrigerated storage building on the farm The entire crop is taken each year by eight Chicago florists who store the buds in refrigerators and force them open as the trade calls for them Peony buds can be stored from 30 to 90 days remaining completely com corn petely dormant under tion The Morgans use boys and girls from the small community to hoe weeds in the peony field and to I pick the buds |
