182 How TO Grow Cut Flowers. 



and sells his own product without the intervention of 

 middlemen, will need to hesitate long as to the form in 

 which they are to be grown or as to what shall succeed 

 them. The demand will regulate the form, and on all 

 retail places there are many ways of supplying a crop 

 to occupy the vacant space. With the commercial 

 grower, the matter of succession must be decided be- 

 fore commencing. If your market will take a crop of 

 Harrisii lilies for Easter, or of hybrids that have been 

 grown through the summer in boxes, then a crop of 

 chrysanthemums will add materially to the income to 

 be derived from a house, as either of the above can then 

 be followed by a crop of teas or hybrids for the season 

 following, and no time will be lost. 



When the market demands well grown sprays, the 

 cuttings should be made in April, potted, topped once, 

 shifted, and planted in the bench in June twelve inches 

 each way, and the first shoots pinched out once only. 

 As -they grow, all weak wood should be removed, and 

 the buds on those allowed to mature, thinned to the 

 number of blooms desired in a spray. This method 

 will not give as strong or straight stems as when each 

 plant is allowed to mature but one spray. When 

 grown in the last named form the cuttings may be 

 made and the planting done two or three weeks later. 

 When grown to single stem the top should never be 

 removed, but every facility given the plants to make 

 straight stems by staking them at the proper time. 



