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As an example of what may be accomplished we 

 give the yields for eight months of fourteen 

 hundred Lady Hume Campbell plants 

 in one of our houses and the prices, as follows : 



October, 1897, 8,000 flowers So. 50 per hundred 



November, 1897, 11,950 flowers 0.75 per hundred 



December, 1897, 12,000 flowers i.oo per hundred 



January, 1898, 11,830 flowers 1.25 per hundred 



February, 1898, 17, 250 flowers 0.75 per hundred 



March, 1898, 23,900 flowers 0.75 per hundred 



April, 1898, 23,850 flowers 0.50 per hundred 



May, 1898, 3, 800 flowers 0.50 per hundred 



Total 112,580 Average $0.75 per hundred 



It will be seen that this house, containing 

 fourteen hundred plants, yielded an average of 

 eighty flowers per plant, and the average price 

 received was seventy-five cents per hundred, so 

 that the value of the yield of each plant was sixty 

 cents. 



On the basis of an average of sixty cents per 

 hundred, the total value of the yield from ten 

 thousand plants would be three thousand dollars, 

 or thirty cents per plant. We have already seen 

 that the cost of producing such a plant is ten 

 cents, so that the net profit is twenty cents per 

 plant, or two thousand dollars for the establish- 

 ment. On the other hand, if the average price 

 obtained were ninety cents per hundred flowers, 

 the net profit would be thirty-five cents per 

 plant, or three thousand five hundred dollars for 

 the establishment. Again, if the average yield is 



