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six to ten weeks to develop, and it is impossible to 

 take buds on early flowering kinds in September and 

 expect to cut flowers by October 1. Second early and 

 midseason kinds may be taken with safety by the end 

 of August, and for late kinds, of course, the later the 

 bud can be secured the later will be the crop. After 

 the buds are swelling and before they show color it 

 should be seen to that the plants are entirely free from 

 insects, black and green fly particularly, as smoking 

 cannot be practiced when the plants are in full flower, 

 and a flower that is alive with aphis is unsalable in 

 any market. 



The cutting and shipping of the flowers will be 

 regulated more or less by the market demand, but it 

 is a good policy to ship the flowers just as soon as they 

 are fully developed rather than leave them on the 

 plant till they are past their best. Care and time spent 

 in packing is well spent, as it is an easy matter to 

 destroy the labor of weeks by careless handling of 

 the flowers. 



COMMERCIAL TYPES 



The type of flower best suited to commercial pur- 

 poses is the Japanese incurved. This type gives size 

 and the incurving petals are not easily bruised in 

 shipping. Good examples of this type are Col. Ap- 

 pleton, yellow, and Wm. Duckham, pink. The Japa- 

 nese or reflexed types are great favorites with flower 

 buyers, as a rule, but unless they are packed separately 

 in tissue paper they are apt to become interlaced in 

 the box and torn to pieces when being taken out. For 

 this reason the Japanese are largely tabooed in the 

 large wholesale centers, though the florist who grows 

 and retails his own flowers will find it greatly to his 

 advantage to handle some kinds that are not on sale 

 at every street corner in the large cities. The flower 



