
Our Mid-September Cut-Flower Crew Pauses for a Picture before a Morning’s 
Cutting (Largely from Planting Stock) Is Delivered to Rochester, Minnesota Left 
to Right, Front: My Father, Dominick Fischer; My Foreman, Arnold Franz; Mrs. Ed 
Hammer; My Sister, Louine Fischer; Rear: Louis Skidmore, Yours Truly, La Von 
Laack. Glads Held by Crew: Front: Bonfire, Beauty’s Blush, Chamouny, Burma, 
Beauty’s Blush, Orange Gold, Regal Red. Rear: Big Top, Rose Charm, Spotlight, Big 
Top, Beauty’s Blush, Big Top. 
Pleasure aud Profit from Cut Flowers 
America is full of people who are looking for ways to make “pin money”. Thousands 
of persons use their spare time to take magazine subscriptions or engage in various types 
of handicraft in order to amplify their income. I want to suggest to the readers of this 
catalog that one of the most lucrative and most pleasant of all sidelines is to grow glads for 
local sale as cut-flowers. Many a flower lover who began growing glads as a hobby has 
expanded his sale of cut glads into a profitable business, usually without effort on his part 
and simply as a result of the admiration the blooms elicit. We ourselves sell about $500 
worth of cut glads (including wedding and funeral work) annually in St. Charles, Minne- 
sota, which is a community of only 2000 population. I know of a case where a small city 
of 3000 population absorbs more than $1000 worth of cut glads per year. Such sales are 
made entirely without advertising or solicitation. Doubtless far more could be sold if an 
outright sales campaign were conducted. Nor does it take a large area to grow an appre- 
ciable quantity of cut glads. I remember that years ago we cut and sold 5000 spikes from a 
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