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than a cabbage. The large one is almost too coarse to use in the coun- 

 try, sometimes even too coarse in the country. 



Mr. Chairman: That is a good point. But now say you are growing 

 the yellow chrysanthemum. Now why grow a Chadwick or a small Ap- 

 pleton, when your customer would a great deal rather have a big one 

 and you can grow it just as easily? 



Mr. Atkinson: I can answer that by saying that I think most of my 

 customers would rather have a dozen medium sized chrysanthemums 

 than two large ones. 



The Chairman: Yes, sir, but wouldn't they rather have the same 

 number of large ones, instead of the same number of small ones, at the 

 same price? 



Mr. Atkinson: I believe, though, Mr. Green, that you will agree with 

 me that we have to have some of the smaller flowers? 



Mr. Green: Oh, yes, sir. 



Mr. Frey: You can get this dozen from one plant, and so there 

 would be no advantage in gi'owing half a dozen or a dozen of them in a 

 bunch to get the same sized pot. Of course they would naturally grow 

 a quantity of the large ones and small ones, that there would be a de- 

 mand for, and try and even them as much as we could. 



Mr. Dole: We adhere to the cheaper trade to some extent. By grow- 

 ing two stems from one root, we can then cut four flowers. Of course it 

 took less disbudding to some extent and then we could sell those flowers 

 at a cheaper price. 



Mr. Chairman: Now if there is anything else you want to ask Mr. 

 Frey now is the time. If not, we Avill have a paper on "Growing violets," 

 by W. A. Dole of Beatrice. 



GROWING VIOLETS. 

 W. A. Dole, Beatrice. 



PROPAGATING. 



We will begin with the taking of the cuttings, which is done about 

 March 15. Select the short jointed runners or divisions and insert them 

 in sand kept about the same temperature as for rooting carnations. Or 

 they may be cut just below the surface of the soil with a few roots at- 

 tached and potted at once into two-inch pots in a compost of one part 

 sand and three parts loam. 



SUMMER TREATMENT. 



After the plants become well established in two-inch pots, and dan- 

 ger of frost is past, we plant them In the garden north of the greenhouse, 

 where they are sheltered from the south wind and where they can be 

 watered. The double varieties are set six inches apart in the row and 



