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WEST CHICAGO 
FOR GROWERS IN LATITUDES 40-45° ae 
Plant Pinch oe ; Lights Start Flowering 
Date Date** Lighting Period Off Shade Date 
Spray Types Oct. 14 Nov. 11 Oct. 14-Jan. 2 Jan. 3 No Mar. 21 
Standards Oct..14 Nov. 11 Oct. 14-Jan. 9 Jan. 10 No Mar. 21 
Spray Types Octez] Noy. 18 Oct. 21-Jan. 9 Jan. 10 No Mar. 28 
Standards Oct. 21 Nov. 18 Oct. 21 -Jan..16 Jan. 17 No Mar. 28 
VARIETIES for above schedules 
Standards 
White Yellow Pink Bronze 
Mefo* Yellow Mefo* Ed. Seidewitz Mrs. Roy 
Ind. White Imp. Ind. Yellow Dk. Orchid Queen Detroit News 
Queen’s Lace Ind. Yellow Ind. Bronze 
Yellow Lace 
Spray Types 
White Yellow Pink Bronze 
Priscilla Lollipop* Almega (Bronze not 
Paramount Pippin Minuet recommended 
Shasta* Yellow Shasta* Masterpiece* for this period) 
White Mensa Golden Mensa 
Plant Pinch ah : Lights Start Flowering 
Date Date** miele tte cers Off Shade Date 
Nov. 4 Dec. 2 Nov. 4-Jan. 23 Jan. 24 Mar. 15 Apr. 4 
Nov. 11 Dec. 9 Nov. 11-Jan. 30 Jan. 3] Mar. 15 Apr. 11 
VARIETIES for above schedules 
Standards 
White Yellow Pink Bronze 
Ind. White* Imp. Ind. Yellow* Ind. Pink (Bronze not 
Queen's Lace* Yellow Lace* Dk. Orchid Queen recommended 
Jean Elizabeth 
Spray Types 
White 
Keepsake* 
Shasta* 
Pinocchio 
Il. Snowdrift 
White Popcorn 
White Mensa 
Halo 
Pristina 
A typical ’’3-crops-a-year’’ planting—as seen at our range. 
(not in the photo) are in earlier stages of development. 
the grower will cut 
one 
*Very best for the period 
***For single stemmed crops, plan 
Ind. Yellow 
Yellow 
Mary L. Hall* 
Yellow Shasta* 
Gold Coast 
Golden Mensa 
into a new 
Po es 
POOLE GO OE ae 
t cuttings on pinch date. 
bench about every two weeks ‘round the 
Pink 
Masterpiece* 
Linda Lou 
Memorial 
Reward 
“ee BOF 
Poe, 
for this period) 
Bronze 
(Bronze not 
recommended 
for this period) 
Note at far left the next crop, just coloring up. Other plantings in the house 
Each bench produces three crops cach year; with eight benches in the program, 
year, In the foreground: Vic Ball. 
