. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1136 The American Florist. Dc making a fair margin of profit, pro- viding the house can be used for other crops as soon as the chrysanthemums are cut. Varieties maturing before November could be sold at least 15 per cent less, leaving the same margin of profit, because we have the use of the space earlier in the season, and getting a start before the very short days of winter. It has been our cus- tom the last few years to grow as few varieties as possible, each variety be- mg scheduled to bloom at a certain seaso
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1136 The American Florist. Dc making a fair margin of profit, pro- viding the house can be used for other crops as soon as the chrysanthemums are cut. Varieties maturing before November could be sold at least 15 per cent less, leaving the same margin of profit, because we have the use of the space earlier in the season, and getting a start before the very short days of winter. It has been our cus- tom the last few years to grow as few varieties as possible, each variety be- mg scheduled to bloom at a certain season. "The varieties we consider most profitable to us from a retail point of view are as follows: (early va- rieties), Golden Glow (yellow), Polly Rose (white), Gloria Pacific (pink). Unaka is considered a great favorite by many but with us it was a failure; (mid-season varieties) Robert Halli- day (yellow) White Cloud (white) McNiess (pink) and Major BonnafEon (yellow); (late varieties), both yellow and white Jerome Jones, Lynwood Hall (white) Maud Dean (pink) and Ro- sette (pink). "We have been growing these va- rieties for the last four or five years. Some years ago I was very enthusias- tic on the chrysanthemum question and bought stock of practically all the new varieties as they were introduced and found to my regret that the larger percentage of the new varieties were a total failure and a dead loss. There are exceptions however; for instance, when Yellow Jones was introduced I bought 500 plants. The first year the flowers did not pay for the labor of growing them, much less for the plants, which were quite costly. Giving them another trial the follow- ing year they did remarkably well, producing splendid flowers, and we have been growing them ever since. "This is only an instance to illus- trate that many times a new variety is discarded before It is given a fair chance. However, to make money out of chrysanthemums it is better to let them be tried out in d
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