. Australian Garden and Field. April, 19 U These l"i>;"urcs which 1 will jiro- coe<l to j^ive you of the productive- ness of the so-calloil standard \ .iri- eties are compiled from an accur- ate record of each day's cut of blooms, and is absolutely free from jjuess work. No account was kept of (lowers cut before they had at- tained character enou<;li to be mar- ketable. Of sorts that are accus- tomed to " split " we have kept a separate record and were able to tell at tile end of the season the i)ercentage of imperfect flow^- ers. WTiite Wonder heads the list for p
. Australian Garden and Field. April, 19 U These l"i>;"urcs which 1 will jiro- coe<l to j^ive you of the productive- ness of the so-calloil standard \ .iri- eties are compiled from an accur- ate record of each day's cut of blooms, and is absolutely free from jjuess work. No account was kept of (lowers cut before they had at- tained character enou<;li to be mar- ketable. Of sorts that are accus- tomed to " split " we have kept a separate record and were able to tell at tile end of the season the i)ercentage of imperfect flow^- ers. WTiite Wonder heads the list for productiveness with an average of good flowers, and faulty ones per plant. From that grand old variety Enchantress which, with its long list of sports, constitute over 50 per cent, of the total plantings of carnations in this country, the peld was perfect blooms per plant and with split calyces but" saleable flowers. From' white En- chantress our yield was 16 perfect flowers and "bursts" per plant. Next comes Beacon with a yield of perfect and split flow- ers, and Mrs. C. W. Ward with an average of blooms. Taking afl these varieties and others into account, the average per plant was a fraction leiss than 15 blooms and in addition to this an average of 2 cuttings from each plant. Now just a few words as to the cost of producing these 15 blooms. The plant upon which these flow- ers were grown ocicupied X of a square ft. of the entire ground sur- face covered by glass. The recog- nized market \alue of a strong healthy carnation plant at the time of benching is, say 6 cents. The cost for coal last winter to grow that plant was cents. Ten cents, was expended on the labor on that plant to make possible its required production of blooms. cents represents that plant's share of the interest on the invest- ment. 2 cents was the tax on the plant for shipping cases, fertiHizer, soil, repairs, and other small dentals. Not unti
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