. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Wflvri I |iLV, J» '.. 'O' '^'?, ??.. ? 1 ...i.,^,tf«,!,.wi I^^^pfnpafpBnppi^j*iiiUHiiPval||«^>,»•Pl|PPf^l^?w»T'•?'!!F'"l(J*'^.'* (J' '*? i"?',"''w""wtw>'-' 22 The Florists^ Review ACGUMT 10. 11)22. Planting of Marie Lemoine Adjacent to Henry S. Cooper's Home at Dunmovin, Where Over a Hundred Other Varieties Grow. looking for jx'onies to plant in tlic land he already owns. Go slow. Study your market. Plant a few hundred ])eonies of different varieties, so that you may learn how to grow them and le
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Wflvri I |iLV, J» '.. 'O' '^'?, ??.. ? 1 ...i.,^,tf«,!,.wi I^^^pfnpafpBnppi^j*iiiUHiiPval||«^>,»•Pl|PPf^l^?w»T'•?'!!F'"l(J*'^.'* (J' '*? i"?',"''w""wtw>'-' 22 The Florists^ Review ACGUMT 10. 11)22. Planting of Marie Lemoine Adjacent to Henry S. Cooper's Home at Dunmovin, Where Over a Hundred Other Varieties Grow. looking for jx'onies to plant in tlic land he already owns. Go slow. Study your market. Plant a few hundred ])eonies of different varieties, so that you may learn how to grow them and learn which is best suited to your own soil and localitj" and climate. You can be learning at the same time you are studying your market. ^'o^l will also learn to steer clear of the man who will cheerfully hand you a lot of diseased foots. Visit some good plant- ings in June and see a large number of different \arieties. Don't buy the i-heapest you can find. I'ay a fair ]>rice for gooil stock. It pays. Suitable Location. N'ow for the other man, who look- ing for a suitable location. Your new location will be determined by the market you want to supply. One chief ;iim is usually to get the flowei-s into market at the (>arliest date, so as to get .highest prices. This year the first in the market solil for .$10 to .+ 12 per hun- dred. So, you see, the early bird gets as much as $l,.')00 per acre more than the late one. This early market causes many to go south so as to get an earlier crop of bloom. There are j)lantings in Mississipi)i, Tennessee, soutliern Illinois and In- diana, northern Illinois, Wisconsin, etc. Mississipi)i is fully thirty days earlier than southern Wisconsin. Southern Illi- nois and the south are nearly always in ('hicago for Memorial day, while south- ern Wisconsin seldom is ready. North- ern Wisconsin and the northern penin- sula of .-ire in bloom .Tulv 1 to 10. I hear you saying, ''The south for ; But wait a minute.
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