Flowers

One of our activities in those years was the growing of trees and flowers. We planted rows of different kinds of trees and shrubbery bushes that we sold with limited success. We did better with the chrysanthemums both in the greenhouse and in the field. The greenhouse variety were the large pompom variety that we forced with only one bloom to the plant. These we sold to a wholesale florist in Philadelphia. The field variety were the hard varieties that we grew from cuttings and transplanted later to the field where we could cultivate and take care of them easier. We had over a hundred varieties of all kinds and colors. In the fall when they were in bloom we dug and sold them as potted plants mostly to stores at wholesale prices. We also made cuttings and started many other hard shrubs and plants. Yews and azaleas were very successful and popular. We designed and built a much larger greenhouse that we added to the original one and this helped a lot. I enjoyed these activities and learned a lot about plant propagation and marketing.