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RECORDS THE ROSES ^ 

 9g GIVE GOOD GROWERS 



The following article and table are published anonymously, but let 

 no one doubt the authenticity and painstaking accuracy. The Editor of 

 The Review knows the grower, the greenhouses, the stock and the whole- 

 saler, and most of the Readers would recognize the standing of all con- 

 cerned were the names divulged. 



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LTHOUGH I am a rose 

 grower exclusively, I "was 

 greatly interested in the 

 article in The Review for 

 June 29, entitled "Keep- 

 ing Count of the Carna- 

 tion Cut," in which the 

 cut and cash income of a 

 Boston greenhouse estab- 

 lishment were set down in 

 detail. To me this was important as 

 affording the opportunity to compare 

 the income of a carnation grower with 

 the income of our own place in roses; 

 how much more interesting, then, must 

 have been the figures for other carna- 

 tion growers, giving them^the oppor- 

 tunity to compare, not oniy^ash in- 

 come, but the productivity and\profit- 

 ableness of the varieties this grower 

 used and with the varieties on their 

 own benches! 



Sellable Figures Hard to Get. 



Eeliable statistics of this character 

 are difficult to procure. In the first 

 place, though it should not be so, many 

 growers are not sufficiently awake to 

 the value of accurate knowledge as to 

 what their houses are turning out and, 

 although they may start at the begin- 

 ning of the season to keep a record, 

 before the year has rolled around they 

 have relaxed their effort and breaks 

 have occurred that render the whole 

 thing valueless. Then, too, growers do 

 not, as a rule, care to divulge such inti- 

 mate facts as the amount of their an- 



nual income, although it may of course 

 be done to The Review in perfect con- 

 fidence. If the Editor knows the grower 

 to be painstaking and accurate, so that 

 his statements can be published anony- 

 mously, they can be accepted by the 

 trade as reliable and the identity of the 

 establishment can remain safe with the 

 Editor. 



Boses Versus Carnations. 



With this in view I am submitting 

 herewith a table showing the results 

 of the season that ended June 30, 1916, 

 at the place with which I am identified. 

 It will interest other rose growers as 

 affording a comparison with their own 

 results, for the six varieties of roses 

 covered in the table are the ones now 

 generally grown in quantity in green- 

 houses throughout the greater part of 



the United States. Carnation growers 

 will note that the returrfs per square 

 foot of bench space are larger than 

 their own (the article of June 29 

 showed 66 cents per square foot of 

 bench for carnations), but I am inclined 

 to believe that there is no larger mar- 

 gin of profit, as the cost of growing 

 roses is no doubt fifteen per cent or 

 more higher than the cost of growing 

 carnations. The fuel bill alone, which 

 in our case is in excess of $8,000 for the 

 year, is sufficient to cut quite a hole, 

 while it also takes considerably more 

 labor to handle roses. 



Cutting Twelve Months. 



My table shows a pretty even cut for 

 the whole twelve months, although 

 practically all the plants were either 

 rested or replaced with young stock 

 during the year. This work, however, 

 was 80 regulated that a certain propor- 

 tion of each variety was kept in bloom 

 at all times, so as to keep up a contin- 

 uous cut, which is necessary where one 

 is growing roses for the Chicago mar- 

 ket, where the demand for good roses 

 never ceases, not even in midsummer. 



Quantity or Quality. 



The figures here given are gross 

 wholesale prices, the cut being sold ex- 

 clusively in one house in the Chicago 

 market, fifteen per cent to be deducted 

 as the cost of selling. The cut rates 

 as good average stock; in some other 

 years the place has been run to produce 



A CHICAGO GROWER'S COMPARISON OF THE YEAR'S RETURNS FROM DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF ROSES. 



No. of plants. . . . 

 Sq.ft.b'nchsp'ce 



1915-16- 



July 



August.... 

 September. 

 October . . . 

 November . 

 December.. 

 January . . . 

 February . . 

 March . . . . 



April 



May 



June 



Total 



Av. per plant. 



Killarney 



10.800 



Cut 

 44.454 

 16.175 

 7,590 

 28.207 

 21,901 

 26,607 

 17,143 

 28,626 

 14.472 

 39,999 

 30,760 

 31.100 



14,400 



Brought 



$ 435.40 



251.40 



199.35 



1,107.75 



906.61 



2,065.15 



l,451.9i 



1.425.45 



522.45 



1,484.45 



694.36 



619.50 



306,434 $11,163.81 

 28.4 I $1.03>^ 



White Killarney 



12.000 



Cut 

 36,531 

 33. (m 

 32.336 

 22,896 

 25,212 

 21,842 

 16,597 

 23,199 

 20,303 

 37,565 

 23.624 

 42,497 



335,246 

 28 



16,000 



Brought 



$ (546.55 



797.45 



813.25 



973.90 



845.10 



1.360.05 



1,233.70 



1,. 367.25 



826.00 



1,290.35 



886.35 



970.76 



$12,009.70 

 $1.00 



Kill. Brilliant 



10,200 



Cut 

 29,475 

 26,000 

 22,920 

 18,002 

 18.5.32 

 19.403 

 10.843 

 19,469 

 14,165 

 27,930 

 25,248 

 41,689 



273.663 

 28.8 



13,600 



Brought 

 $ 607.25 

 427.75 

 597.05 

 952.45 

 839.05 



1,681.65 

 984.30 



1,161.10 

 692.85 



1,164.75 

 828.60 

 998.66 



Mrs. Aaron Ward 



10,800 



Cut 

 30,225 

 40,663 

 39.215 

 39.194 

 33.510 

 35,835 

 23.081 

 22,597 

 22,846 

 36,439 

 23.926 

 42.271 



14,400 



Brought 



$ 547.45 



424.95 



561.20 



1,228.85 



943.50 



2,186.90 



1.416.26 



1.200.50 



671.80 



1,112.15 



587.20 



761.85 



$10,836.46 388,792 $11,542.60 

 $1.06 36 I $1.07 



Sunburst 



3.600 



Cut 



9,582 



10,047 



9,r>59 



8,195 



4,100 



6,745 



5,244 



2,316 



7,487 



10,881 



10.012 



13.430 



97.698 



27 



4,800 



Brought 

 $ 221.70 

 314.55 

 2r)4.45 

 479.80 

 204.60 

 546.36 

 364.00 

 143.85 

 332.35 

 391.50 

 292.60 

 448.90 



Milady 



21,400 



$4,004.66 

 $1.11V 



Cut 

 62,125 

 43,833 

 58,&39 

 42,763 

 33,492 

 39..396 

 17,781 

 22,770 

 47.435 

 55,395 

 53.381 

 57.151 



534.161 

 25 



28.(500 



Brought 

 $1,114.05 

 1,108.25 

 1.881.45 

 2,386.65 

 1,816.55 

 3,292.76 

 1,. 35 1.86 

 1,280.20 

 1.721.20 

 1.969.60 

 2,022.46 

 1.490.10 



$21,434.10 

 $1.00 



The Editof will be pleased to have other Growers submit in confidence a record of their cut and sales. 



