March 12, 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DAFFODIL GROWING IN VIRGINIA. 
Growing Dutch flowering bulbs on a 
commercial 'scale in this country was 
commenced about eight years ago. A 
company was organized and a farm pui- 
chased at Petersburg, Virginia, and the 
stock planted under direction of an 
English grower. The climate and soil 
of tidewater Virginia is ideal for grow¬ 
ing bulbs, especially daffodils, and the 
big clumps of these bulbs now found in 
most old and even abandoned plantation 
homes is evidence the location chosen 
was most suitable to the purpose. The 
best paying commercial varieties grown 
in England were planted here, and kinds 
used were mostly Paper White, trumpet 
Major, Double Von Sion, Ornatus, 
Pheasant Eye and Princeps. The Ameri¬ 
can trade did not take kindly to the 
blooms for two reasons. First, they 
were not packed to carry well; second, 
the blooms of the early varieties were 
too short-stemmed and small in size. It 
was found the two first named would 
come up and bud any time a warm spell 
occurred in Winter. A cold snap would 
freeze them, and while the injury to the 
foliage did not hurt the bulb, it was 
often sufficient to prevent the maturing 
of the flower bud, and bulbs would fail 
to bloom the following year. The Von 
Sion in this climate comes yellowish 
green and is worthless, and the English 
grower did a most unwise business move 
in selling these varieties to large Ameri¬ 
can bulb dealers. The company was put 
are succeeding in getting their bulbs on 
the market in increasing quantity each 
year, and the future will see Virginia- 
grown stock preferred for some pur¬ 
poses. and such varieties as we can grow 
will find a ready market. 
The flower season opens about March 
1, and immense quantities are shipped 
from the open field. One large grower 1 
last Spring shipped 50,000 blooms in a 
day. We do not pack as many blooms to | 
the box as the English growers, and send ] 
you a photograph of our box below. 1 lie 
English box is smaller, and we think they 
make a mistake to pack so close. Our 
box is 28 x 16 x 6 inches, and we pack 
all blooms one layer, 450 Emperor or 600 
smaller varieties to the box. 1 he blooms 
are all cut without foliage (which would 
injure bulbs) and tied 25 to a bunch, 
using a spread-out fan style, with all 
blooms facing one way, so the bunches 
pre quickly dropped in the packing box, 
and carry well without injury. 
Returns have been most erratic. Last 
Spring a shipment to Philadelphia, to a 
leading commission house, netted five 
cents per 100 blooms. New York City 
was not much better until about Easter 
week when they netted about 75 cents 
per 100. These cities were so badly over¬ 
loaded we sent most of our cut flowers 
to Chicago and Pittsburg, and returns 
were generally good. We also have a 
nice increasing trade with northern cities, 
and we believe there is a grand opening 
to supply the blooms at popular retail 
prices before the local season gives 
blooms on bulbs planted in the open 
ground. We read in “Collier’s Weekly” 
of a special train carrying field-grown 
cut flowers from Italy to northern cities 
of Europe, and value of these cut flowers 
was over a million dollars annually. So 
there seem to be immense possibilities in 
this field, but it requires experienced 
DAFFODIL FLOWERS PACKED FOR SHIPMENT. 
into receiver’s hand last year, and stock 
has been resold twice at practically 
nominal figures. This very large stock 
has a big per cent of undesirable bulbs, 
and all the rest are not commercially 
salable until taken up and replanted. 
Other growers came and located in the 
State and have had various success. One 
has withdrawn and moved to Washing¬ 
ton, leaving three located at Norfolk, 
Richmond and Emporia. These growers 
have discarded most of the kinds grown 
by the pioneer company of Petersburg, 
and the varieties most profitable are 
Emperor, Empress, Sir Watkin, Prin¬ 
ceps and Grandee; all large trumpet 
varieties, which are more salable, and 
in best demand for cut flowers. Ornatus, 
Barrii Conspicuus, Mrs. Langtry and all 
varieties of these types, or short trumpet 
style, are easily grown, but flowers and 
bulbs bring lower prices and are slower 
to sell. We started five years ago with 
a small experimental plot, and have 
increased as fast as possible by replant¬ 
ing stock and using returns from flower 
sales and large bulbs to get more stock. 
We have made mistakes, and have a nice 
stock of Double Von Sion which are 
used to naturalize a cow pasture, as we 
would not sell them. It is hard to get 
good customers and when we get them it 
is cheaper to treat them so they have no 
desire to leave us, than to go hunting for 
a new crop as some people do business. 
We have a large field of Golden Spur 
which has run out instead of improving, 
and to fill some orders last Fall we 
bought imported bulbs rather than to 
send’out inferior stock, as we figured we 
could stand the money lo s better than 
lose our reputation. The present growers 
3 H. P. 
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