WHERE ROSES GROW 497 



der Killarney, Ophelia or Testout, with flowers galore from June 

 until stopped by frost? 



Travel from the sunny South along the Atlantic Coast up into 

 Northern Canada, then go West to Winnipeg and several thousand 

 miles farther to Prince Rupert, then go South again to Mexico, 

 and you haven't touched a spot where the retail grower couldn't 

 sell these Roses and have them do well for their purchasers. Yet 

 the number of florists who actually go out of their way to supply 

 the right kind of stock and push its sale is very small indeed. 



DON'T GROW CUT ROSES ON A SMALL SCALE 



If there is any one crop which, to my mind, it doesn't pay to 

 grow on a small scale it is Roses. Many years ago the growing of 

 Roses under glass drifted into the hands of specialists and we soon 

 found that it was out of the question to handle them in a small way 

 and grow as good stock, or grow it as cheaply. 



You can never hope to grow Roses successfully when mixed 

 in the same house with a lot of other stock. You may cut some 

 good flowers at times, but not enough to make it worth while. In 

 order to make Roses pay you should have nothing else in the houses; 

 watch temperature and ventilation closely; and have one man who 

 knows all about it in charge. When you cannot do this you had 

 better devote the space to something else, for there are millions of 

 square feet of glass devoted to the growing of Roses distributed 

 practically all over the United States, or at least so generally that 

 the cut flowers can be shipped to almost any point and reach those 

 who want them in good cndition. Hardly any other flower ships 

 better than a Rose when cut at the proper time and packed and 

 shipped right. 



With the proper facilities and sufficient experience it is no trick 

 to grow Roses under glass. On the other hand, many of us 

 know of cases where a well-experienced and successful Rose grower 

 left his old place for a new position and made a failure of it, not 

 being sufficiently acquainted with new climatic conditions, soil and 

 houses. Or we may find a newcomer who never had any ex- 

 perience in Rose growing before he became tired of growing cu- 

 cumbers and radishes under glass, going into Roses and right in the 

 midst of Winter bringing in the finest Ophelias on the market, while 

 the Rose specialist a few blocks away is complaining of dark 

 weather and a heavy dose of mildew. But for all that, the retail 

 grower who makes Roses a side line will find before he gets through 

 that he will have one week when he can cut, say, 400 flowers, but 

 has use for only 175, and when from the wholesale price list he 

 learns that at what they are quoted it would hardly pay him to 

 ship his surplus. A little later he may cut 50 Roses during a week 

 when he needs 300 or more, which he has to buy at a high price. 



