CHAPTER XI 



HORTICULTURE 



The Market Violets Greenhouses Diseases Roses 

 Chrysanthemums Poppies Flowers in the Street 

 Sweet Peas and Wild Flowers Orchids Plants for 

 Renting Floriculture. 



IN every city there is a growing demand for 

 flowers. Roses, violets, carnations, and chrys- 

 anthemums are now most popular. But to make 

 horticulture profitable you must in this, as in 

 everything else, study your market before de- 

 ciding what to raise. If you give all your 

 thoughts and energies to raising one flower you 

 can produce better results than by raising a 

 variety. If you raise enough you can sell direct 

 instead of through a commission man and so 

 get better prices. There are always good mar- 

 kets somewhere, and flowers are shipped from 

 New York to Chicago, Buffalo, Boston, Phila- 

 delphia, Baltimore, and Washington, and vice 

 versa. 



Intelligent effort is the road to success, very 



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