San Gabriel Valley Chrysanthemum Society

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08/13/2024

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In 1910, Mare Samuella Cromer, a rural schoolteacher in South Carolina, organized a girl's tomato club so females aged 9 to 20 could “not learn simply how to grow better and more perfect tomatoes, but how to grow better and more perfect women.” Soon, there were tomato clubs in a number of states. The idea was simple: Teach rural girls how to plant and grow tomatoes, then harvest and can them, and sell them for a profit. The only work the girls didn't do themselves was the plowing of their individual 1/10th acre plots.
In one notable example, a girl harvested 2,000 lbs. of tomatoes. After sales, she earned a profit of $78 (about $2,470 today). This was *real* money for girls who came from hardscrabble backgrounds.
In 1915, one tomato club girl was quoted as saying the work was “long and sometimes tiresome...It has been a way by which I could not only have my own spending money and pay my expenses at the Farm Camp, but I also have a bank account of sixty dollars." (About $1,881 today.)
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Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

~Bruce Coville

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Chinese Fringetree (Chionanthus retusus) What kind of plant is as tough as nails, has beautiful foliage, snow-white flowers, and exfoliating bark? It's the Chinese bangs. It is native to Korea, China and Japan.

This easy-to-grow deciduous tree displays a showy, white, clustered flower that appears in fringes each spring. While the male plant has brighter flowers than the female, the attractive fruits that birds and some mammals use as a food source only appear on the female plant... 🤍💚

08/13/2024

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Ice flowers in Norway 🇳🇴