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buds, and will be becoming 

 valuable. Trade price, from 

 forty to fifty dollars per hundred ; 

 retail price, one dollar each. 



The following spring, which 

 is the fourth year from grafts, 

 they should flower profusely, in 

 fact, in such quantities that but 

 little of the foliage will be seen 

 when they are in bloom. 



Grafted plants are worth 

 more, and are sold at a higher 

 figure at this age, than those of 



Fig. 25. 



Plant two years from graft, 

 the same age grown 

 from cuttings. 



Grafted plants form 

 beautiful heads. 



The cost of handling 

 makes the difference in 

 price between the two 

 methods of propagating. 



Figure 27 represents 

 a well-grown plant, with 

 a fine head, and covered 

 with flower buds. It is 

 four years old from graft, 

 and should measure in 

 diameter from fourteen 



Fig. 26. 

 Plant three years from graft. 



