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COST AND PROFITS 



blooms per week throughout the flowering season, the yield 

 would be 9700 and 14,550 respectively. From this it 

 will be seen that much more than the usual distance between 

 the rows and between the plants, too, could be spared 

 and still have a highly satisfactory crop of blooms. Nor 

 should it be forgotten that the finer flowers invariably sell 

 at a quarter more per 100 than those of less quality. 



Summer-flowering Spencer Sweet Pea Inspector 

 (Brilliant Orange) 



A successful northern New York grower has two 

 recently built houses devoted to this crop, the houses each 

 being 130 ft. x 30 ft. Neither of the houses is entirely 

 filled with the Peas, which are sown in September in solid 

 beds in the center of the house, and the plants are 8 in. 

 apart each in the rows. The vines are run up on binder 



