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 to $1.00. 
Often it pays better to wrap 50 to 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 open¬ 
ing, especially in the spring. It sometimes takes patience 
to wait for them, but it pays. 
There is also good demand Tom 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 nublic buys the blooming plants. 
