GENERAL REMARKS 133 



Take all the new kinds and try a few of each. If you find a 

 good one, grow one or two thousand of it the next year, but 

 never go into an uncertain thing too heavily. You must have 

 enough of the sure things on the place to make good any loss 

 you may sustain over the others. On large places an order for 

 10,000 plants of a new kind is not uncommon. 



A man must take some risk if he is anxious to make money, 

 or to try new kinds, and the novelties are always sought by the 

 buyers and often help to sell the common stock. 



In choosing a good Rose for Winter flowering you will 

 find that varieties with a rather long, pointed bud, will develop 

 best in the dark days. Buds hard and short, like a flat cabbage 

 head, are best in the Summer time. Take two good buds about 

 ready to open and feel the difference; the former kind, having 

 perhaps thirty petals, will feel soft and yielding to the touch, 

 while the latter, with forty-five petals, will be very hard and 

 slow to open. 



ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR BAD WEATHER 



The need of fire heat in the Fall depends somewhat on 

 circumstances. If the plants are not soft, and if the houses 

 are not over-charged with moisture, no harm will result from 

 one or two cool nights without fire in August. On the other 

 hand, the seeds of disease are often sown at this time and the 

 good grower is always prepared to turn on steam at short 

 notice. If the plants are kept too cool in the Fall the wood 

 becomes hard and the plants will take a rest from which it 

 will be hard to get them started again. Aim to keep the 

 plants moving in the Fall without getting them too soft. It is 

 sometimes advisable to rest varieties in the Winter time for 

 certain reasons. Then the temperature may be reduced and 

 also the water supply. As a rule, the higher the temperature 

 carried the more water the plants will require. In some of 

 our Rose factories where flowers are turned out daily by the 



