COST AND PROFITS 3 1 



twine to a height oj 15 ft. A picture of the crop as it 

 appeared in March, 19 14, appears on page 39. Cutting 

 in the first house began on December 1 7, in the second on 

 February 18. The first cuts sold at $1 per 100, and con- 

 tinued at that figure for a month, then dropped to 75c. 

 per 1 00, which price was maintained till after Easter, when 

 it fell to 70c, and up to the end of May over 215,000 

 salable flowers were picked. The gross returns were $1700. 

 Christmas Pink was largely grown, and others of Zvolanek's 

 varieties. Basing our calculations on these actual figures 

 it will be seen that for a closer planted house, or one more 

 fully filled with the Peas, the figures already mentioned 

 easily hold good. The actual yield from the two houses 

 referred to, was as follows : 



Yield from Two Houses, each 130 x 30 ft. 

 Date Weeks No. of Sprays 



Dec. 24 1st 1,000 



Dec. 31 2d 2,000 



Jan. 7 3d 3,000 



Jan. 14 4th 5,000 



Jan. 21 5th 4,000 



Jan. 28 6th 6,000 



Feb. 4 7th 7,000 



Feb. 11 8th 8,000 



Feb. 78 9th 9,000 



Feb. 25 10th 10,000 



March 4 1 ith 7,000 



March 11 12th 7,000 



March 18 13th 9,000 



March 25 14th 10,000 



April 1 1 5th *28,ooo 



April 8 16th 20,000 



April 15 17th 22,coo 



April 22 18th 20,000 



April 29 19th 18,000 



May 6 20th 19,000 



215,000 



* For Easter week. The contract was for 40,000 blooms, but though extra heat 

 and water were given, the cut fell short by 12,000 sprays. 



