318 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



Chrysanthemum show all his own, which is bound to boost things 

 and have a beneficial effect all Winter. There isn't a better business 

 stimulant, not to say anything about the advantage of turning your 

 crop into dollars. 



The retail grower who doesn't make Chrysanthemums pay 

 often has only himself to blame. By not paying sufficient attention 

 to the sorts he handles and how he treats them, he is apt to keep 

 on growing outofdate sorts for which there is but little demand; or 

 he fails to recognize the necessity of carrying early, midseason 

 and late sorts in the right proportions, which, to my mind, is of as 

 great importance as anything else. 



How TO Grow Chrysanthemums 



For the man who retails the Chrysanthemums he grows the 

 main thing to bear in mind is to plan so as to have flowers to cut 

 from the middle of October up to near Christmas. This may be 

 easy enough for those who can devote several houses to them, but 

 even when the plants are handled on a small scale it can be done. 

 Avoid the mistake made by so many who grow in the neighborhood 

 of 2500 plants consisting of say, 1000 Major Bonnaffon, 500 Eaton, 

 500 Ivory, and 500 mixed Pompons. One may make money out of 

 such an assortment, but one is more apt to have to dump a large 



Fig. 130. — The Pompon Chrysanthemum. But little disbudding is required by 



the Pompon, yet there are times when, with certain varieties, you can help things 



along by proper pinching back. This produces graceful sprays with the flowers 



evenly distributed — a feature that makes the plants much more attractive 



