FLOWER GROWING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1064, 30 August 1930, Page 28

FLOWER GROWING

MEANS OF MAKING A LIVING Of recent years growing plants and flowers for market has grown into a. great and flourishing industry. W’hereas once we only saw flowers which were bought in a shop used on special occasions, we now can hardly enter a home without seeing some purchased flowers. And. in addition. shopkeepers in the town make their Windows attractive with flowers, as do many business firms their offices. First of all, a flower-grower must be up-to-dato. It is no use being three years behind the popular taste: it; is rather his object to be a. year ahead. But he must not only be llp-lO'C'Jte in the plants and flowers he grows, but also in the method of production. He should not grow those things which ought to “take," but what the public are really “gone on." It is the fashion-

able flower that sells most easily, and ot course pays the best. It is a happy man who is the first to market some novelty which takes with the public, and he should take care to come on to the market with a good supply during the first few seasons. while he still has a partial monopoly of the secret, for it is certain that before long rivals will ap—pear, and the prices drop. Specialties pay better than general mixtures. That is, make regular crops or a few lines throughout the year. One of the bestpaying allrthe—year flowers are carnations, and these are particularly popular, especially in winter time.