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increased, as it should be, to seventy five or one 

 hundred flowers per plant, the profits will be 

 increased approximately sixty-four and one hun- 

 dred and twenty-eight per cent respectively. 



On the whole, it may be said that the income 

 from ten thousand plants grown in houses and 

 handled properly should year in and year out 

 average five thousand six hundred dollars, while 

 the total expenses should not exceed one thousand 

 five hundred dollars. This means an average yield 

 of seventy-five flowers per plant and an average 

 price of seventy-five cents per hundred flowers. 



Violets can be grown in frames cheaper than 

 they can in houses. With good care the total cost 

 per plant will not exceed five cents, or ten cents 

 per hundred for the flowers, reckoning that the 

 average yield of the latter is fifty flowers per 

 plant. Such flowers ought to net the grower 

 fifty cents per hundred, leaving a profit over 

 all expenses of forty cents per hundred, or 

 approximately four dollars per sash. Finally, it 

 must be remembered that while these figures are 

 fair averages, and are based on actual experience, 

 they cannot be approximated without strict atten- 

 tion to every detail. 



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