Rooted Cuttings 
1 am often requested to quote prices on rooted cuttings of certain 
varieties some customer particularly desires. Now the plants I ship are 
really '‘plants,’^ not rooted cuttings. They are usually root divisions 
taken off very early in the spring and set in nursery rows in a specially 
prepared soil, where by shipping time in the spring and early summer 
they ha\ e developed an excellent root growth and are from 6 to 12 inches 
tall. Rooted cuttings are cheaper and if any of my flower-minded friends 
will let me know in sufficient time I will try to fill their orders for rooted 
cuttings during May and June, but it takes at least 3 weeks advance 
notice and a month would be better. 
While on the subject of rooted cuttings I might add that I believe 
there are considerable possibilities for a little profit in the Korean Hy- 
rid field for the amateur who sells some of his flowers. Late cuttings 
taken in June and rooted by mid-July can be potted up in 2 V 2 inch pots 
and will make excellent pot plants by fall. The style of bloom, colors 
and excellent foliage of the Koreans lend themselves ideally for this 
purpose. Here Korean cuttings handled in such manner make excellent 
pot plants by the latter part of October—about 10 to 12 inches tall with 
a floewr at the top and a bud in the axile of each leaf. When ready for 
sale they are marketed “as is” or transferred to the usual paper pot, 
or several may be “made up” into a 6 inch or larger pot. When they 
are grown under partial shade (slat house) the foliage is unusually nice. 
Anyone wishing to try a few this year should let me know well in ad¬ 
vance so I can prepare the rotted cuttings in time. 
Discounts 
I have found that nearly all of my' flower-minded customers selected 
a plant or two of many varieties, and as a consequence it was quite a 
task to gather, label and ship so many small orders. On top of this I 
discovered that while I would work cheerfully every spare minute tend¬ 
ing to the wants of my mums, I did NOT enjoy gathering and shipping 
them. I have never been able to learn why, but the fact remains that 1 
do, so in order to minimize this job I am offering a straight discount of 
10% to my customers who will pool their orders to where they amount 
to $5.00 or more. If you wish them kept separate in the package I will 
do that for you, but the saving of time will be worth that much to me 
—and you will get the discount for your trouble. 
Beginners Collections 
Many people just getting interested in growing mums would like to 
try out a large number of varieties under their own conditions, in order 
to quickly find out what they could and could not grow. The idea is an 
excellent one, but unfortunately to pick out about 200 different varieties 
as carried in the catalogues of the specialists and buy one each at the 
retail price, runs into real money (I know, I had that idea myself a 
number of years ago). To give the beginner a good start I am willing 
to ship one each of 250 different varieties of mums for the sum of $25.00. 
These will go prepaid, but will probably have to be in 2 or possibly 3 
different shipments due to the different rate of growth of the many dif¬ 
ferent varieties. The lot will include all the types listed in this cata¬ 
logue, and perhaps some varieties not listed this year. If you have par¬ 
ticular preference as to types or colors (or dislikes either) please state 
and I will try to give you as many as I can of the types and colors you 
wish (some people have aversions to certain colors and types). Each 
plant will be correctly labelled (some job too). 
