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Show FORTUNE IN THE MISTLETOE. , N Georgia there is a farm JJVT' f devoted to mistletoe and ? v '"h hol'y growing. It is "Swn I owned by the Cartledge j family, consisting of WTS 2 mother and two daugh- vJy jfe ters' but tne dauSnters at. do tne farming. 7t all began through the failure fail-ure of the elder sister to mako an Immediate triumph in art, to study which she went to New York. She realized in the great city, as she never could have in her rural southern home, that talent for art is too general to leave much hope for special distinction, and wisely concluded con-cluded to turn to something that would bring more speedy results. Being Be-ing an observant young woman. Miss Cartledge noticed that holly and mistletoe mis-tletoe brought extremely high prices i and bethought her that on the 500 acres at home in Georgia both grew in wild abundance. She returned homr and she and her sister began to prepare pre-pare for making the neglected luxuriance luxu-riance of marketable value. In the months of January and February following fol-lowing they set out ten acres of young holly trees with their own hands. Their colored farm hands would not plant a holly tree for worlds, as they believe that if they did they would die as soon as the tree became tall enough to cast a shadow the measure of their graves. Last Christmas the sisters found the trees so grown that they required thinning out and the trees that were removed were sent north for Christmas trees and brought high prices, as they were symmetrical and covered with large, rich berries. They plant the mistletoe berries under the bark of old oak trees in a crack or hole, where they can get hold as they germinate. i |
