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GROWING ASTERS AND DAHLIAS 
PLIGHT years ago I was laid up with 
nervous dyspepsia, and took up 
growing flowers as a hobby. I have been 
selecting and improving them ever since. 
After about three years my stuff" 
began to attract local attention, until 
now I can sell at good prices everything 
I can grow. .1 have selected^ common 
asters until I have them at present in 
small bud (not showing color) standing 
lorty inches high and some stems thirty 
inches long. These flowers ought to 
measure five inches across. I have only 
two colors that I have grown as large as 
this, as these have been worked on the 
longest; my other colors are about eight 
inches behind and probably four inches 
across for the best. 
I am within three miles of three large 
nurseries, and to see the way they grow 
seed is a surprise to any one who knows 
the value of selection. They all grow 
asters as you would grow wheat; leave 
every blossom and don’t pinch one bud 
or root out one plant—everything goes. 
What can you expect from that work .? 
I am growing asters, candytuft, gladi¬ 
oli and dahlias. These bulb plants show 
profit from both ends. I have 12,000 
blooming gladioli out and 1,800 dahlias. 
Gladioli have shown ^200 returns in 
blossoms on one acre. Dahlias will go 
this fall at twenty cents per dozen on 
home market, two cents each in Cleve¬ 
land, and I can cut 450 to 1,000 per day 
to the acre. Asters—my best—bring sixty 
cents per dozen down to thirty cents for 
the smaller sorts. I have had on my 
place no less than 250 sorts of dahlias; 
of these, 1 am growing for cutting but 
ten kinds; am trying this year sixty kinds, 
of these 1 shall probably keep two. 
For my use I look for—1st, color; 2d, 
shipping qualities; 3d, stem; 4th, early 
blooming ; 5th, strong plant. Asters 
from my best seed will bring to those 
within reach (or sixty to one hundred 
miles with morning trains) of the city 
market at least ;^8oo per acre. I have 
realized at the rate of 1,300 per acre. 
My seed is all grown under canvas 
and only two blossoms to the plant. 
My dahlias are weeded clear of yellow 
centers, limp stems, weak plants, etc. 
The gladioli are cleaned of all poor stuff 
as fast as I spot it; so you see I couldn’t 
sell this stuff at nursery prices. 
No farmer is making the most of his 
opportunities when he overlooks the 
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