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trouble with flowers damping because they generally leave 

 them to the terminal bud. In this way they get good 

 cdlours. Bad colours would not sell. 



If pot plants are wanted they may be rooted later and 

 pinched about twice. They may be grown in 6-in. pots, 

 or even 5-in. ; but dwarf and free-flowering varieties must 

 be selected. 



Anything that the plants require must 'be done, and that 

 in the cheapest possible way. Every row must be wired, 

 and each plant have a good stake about the height it will 

 grow to, and this must be tied to the wire. It will save 

 time in the autumn and prevent the plants from getting 

 blown about. All the growths can be looped to one stake, 

 but not bundled together. It is better not to grow, more 

 plants than can be attended to thoroughly. After the buds 

 are secured the plants may be rather liberally supplied" with 

 liquid manure water ; anything will do, only change the 

 nature of it occasionally. 



Why Good Plants Pay Best. 



Now for comparison. It would take a (large plant from 

 which to pick, say, three market-bunches raised in their 

 natural grow-as-they-like style. In mid-season such 

 flowers would be a drug in the market at threepence a large 

 bunch, and in all likelihood would not fetch twopence, and 

 perhaps not sell at all. Xhen you blame your salesman. 

 He cannot help it. But send the same flowers grown as 

 I advise above to the same salesman, and he will sell them 

 at more per flower than he would get per bunch for the 

 others and have no trouble in disposing of them. 



These plants would want but very little more attention 

 than those which are grown haphazard. - The disbudding 

 during their growth entails some extra labour, which 

 would not, however, cost above one penny a plant more 

 than if they were roughly cultivated. Against this your 

 plants do not grow so tall, and they are over and done 

 with sooner; besides, you get much more credit for your 

 labour and a fairer living profit. 



