CHAPTER VII 



Growing for Commercial Purposes 



An important branch of horticultural industry — Selling your 

 plants — Growing for cut blooms — Packages for shipping — 

 Packing — Growing small bush plants — Best form of plants 

 for plant decorations — Stock plants — Decorating — Importing 



The chrysanthemum occupies an impor- 

 tant place in horticultural industry. Owing 

 to the fact that it gives but one crop of 

 flowers annually, and does not occupy the 

 house in which it is grown more than five or 

 six months of the year, it is not considered as 

 a permanent source of income. 



It is difficult to get positive information as 

 to the amount of greenhouse space devoted 

 to the growing of plants for market. From 

 such information as is available, gathered by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington, the amount paid to the retail 

 dealers in the Unites States for chrysanthe- 

 mum plants and flowers during the season of 

 1906 was not far below the million-dollar 

 mark. Unlike that of the rose, carnation, 



