Moreover, the plant needed little care.

To keep it fresh she had only to moisten it with a spoonful of water every two or three weeks.
And cold weather--even zero weather--did not injure it at all.

Friends who called on Mrs.Scribner admired her jar, and said that they should like to get some of them.

Mrs.Scribner wrote to Theodora and suggested that she and her girl friends make up some mitchella jars, and sell them in the city.
That was the way the little industry began.

The girls, however, did not really go into the business until the next fall.