Increase Your Income by Selling 
BLOOMING 
PANSY PLANTS 
IN THE SPRING 
for which there is limitless demand 
if you avoid competition 
by growing 
The Oregon Giants 
Suggestions for Marketing Pansy Plants 
People in general want to buy pansy plants in the spring 
and there is small retail demand for them at other times, so 
seed must be sown with this in mind. 
There is demand for small plants with from four to six 
leaves early in the spring. They stand transplanting well 
and customers will obtain splendid results from them. 
There is even greater demand for blooming plants in the 
spring though they will not stand transplanting as well. 
They look so attractive put up twelve to the pansy basket, 
each plant bearing a giant bloom. Each plant should be 
wrapped separately with newspaper around the roots but not 
covering up all the foliage. Early in the spring these baskets 
sell for 90c or $1.00. 
Often it pays better to wrap 50 or 75 plants separately and 
place them in a peach tray, letting customers select the 
plants they wish. They sell readily for five or ten cents each. 
People are willing to pay for the best. Later in the season 
the price is less. 
Although there is a great demand for pansy plants, yet 
there is also much competition on public markets, etc., so 
it is important to have BETTER PANSIES than the others 
have. 
In digging pansies for market it is important to wait 
until a plant has had a bloom wide open for at least a week. 
The blooms increase in size greatly after first opening, espe¬ 
cially in the spring. It sometimes takes patience to wait for 
them, but it pays. 
There is also good demand from florists for small pansy 
plants, transplanting size, in the fall. Some amateur gar¬ 
deners also realize that it is better to buy small plants in 
the fall than blooming plants in the spring but in general 
the public buys the blooming plants. 
