Commercial rose culture under glass and outdoors; a practical guide to modern methods of growing the rose for market purposes . Rose Mrs. Chas. RussellPink American Beauty; enormous in size STYLE OF HOUSES 21 Provision should be made for a manure tank, a room forgrading and storing the cut flowers, a potting shed and a placefor propagating young stock. There should be room, undercover, to store enough loam in the Fall to take care of thepotting until March or April. Where any quantity of soil isrequired early in the Spring, for planting, it may be stackedup in a semi-dry condition in the Fall,
Commercial rose culture under glass and outdoors; a practical guide to modern methods of growing the rose for market purposes . Rose Mrs. Chas. RussellPink American Beauty; enormous in size STYLE OF HOUSES 21 Provision should be made for a manure tank, a room forgrading and storing the cut flowers, a potting shed and a placefor propagating young stock. There should be room, undercover, to store enough loam in the Fall to take care of thepotting until March or April. Where any quantity of soil isrequired early in the Spring, for planting, it may be stackedup in a semi-dry condition in the Fall, in a compact pile; itwill not freeze through to any great depth and may be handledat almost any CHAPTER III WHAT TO PLANT TO the beginner the question of what to plant may be aperplexing one. As this is such a large country, it isonly natural that some varieties are more popular in certainsections than others, or that some varieties are more success-fully grown in one locality than in another. A good rulewould be to find out what your market calls for and whatkinds are successfully grown in your vicinity, and to com-mence with these kinds. It is too risky for a beginner tolaunch out on unknown seas. He must follow the beatentrack at first, and then, by degrees, he can experimentwith new varieties, and should he strike a good thing hewill make money. The Killarneys, pink and white, are still grown and arepopular. Hadley, Hoosier Beauty and Francis Scott Keyare good reds, Columbia and Mrs. Charles Russell are popularpink varieties, while Ophelia is of a somewhat varying colorand is grown extensively. Then we have almost a score ofothers which are largely grown, but not so universa
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