Profit ideas for Haemanthus

An Illinois grower has excellent results with amaryllids. His ridge-type greenhouse is 10- by 16-feet with one glass end, the other attached to his home, a prefab, it cost about $400.00. He orders Dutch bulbs through a wholesaler and immediately retails them to local and mail-order customers. Keeping files on the collections of his customers, he encourages them to try special varieties. These are ordered for them and shipped at the proper time.

Leftover bulbs are planted in flats, and allowed to bloom. The choicest are pollinated, and seeds from them are sold. Older bulbs are kept and sold as larger stock or as flowering potted plants.

A California grower stocks a variety of amaryllids. Larger ones like Agapanthus, Clivia, and some Haemanthus, are used by his customers as unusual landscaping material. Cyrtanthus is a favorite with collectors, arrangers, and corsage-makers. His customers, local and mail order, can always depend on him to supply them with the newest in amaryllids.

An Oklahoma grower reports a neat profit from sales of her greenhouse-grown zephyranthes used in corsages for her retail trade.

I sell seeds of the Dutch amaryllis, fifteen for $1.00. Haemanthus seeds go two for a quarter, and small haemanthus bulbs at $1.25 to $2.00 each.

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