. American carnation culture. CHAPTER IX. HOW TO PACK AND SHIP CARNATION PLANTS AND THE CUT FLOWERS. I HERE is but one way to ship cut flowers,that is the right way. There is a doubtwhether that way is yet discovered. Thereare many ways of packing; if the right onewas known, there would be but one mode. The field is open to an inventive practical mind. Carnation flowers are not as difficult to packfor transportation as other flowers. They* differ in this repect, that they are alwaysshipped dry. Light wooden boxes, of dimensions correspond-ing in size with the quantity to be shipped; is thebest
. American carnation culture. CHAPTER IX. HOW TO PACK AND SHIP CARNATION PLANTS AND THE CUT FLOWERS. I HERE is but one way to ship cut flowers,that is the right way. There is a doubtwhether that way is yet discovered. Thereare many ways of packing; if the right onewas known, there would be but one mode. The field is open to an inventive practical mind. Carnation flowers are not as difficult to packfor transportation as other flowers. They* differ in this repect, that they are alwaysshipped dry. Light wooden boxes, of dimensions correspond-ing in size with the quantity to be shipped; is thebest plan. They are not likely to be crushed and waterdoes not effect them. The lid should be huncr on hinQ-es, and the boxhave an efficient clasp. Express Companies returnthese boxes gratutiously. The number of boxes needed is proportionedto the frequency of shipments and the number ofpatrons. A set of boxes will last two seasons. A box two and a half feet long, by fifteen incheswide and deep, will hold six or seven hundredCarna
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