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The cut-flower and florist trade is not as developed in Australia as in America, England, and Europe, where many millions of rose blooms are sold each year. In most instances growers limit their varieties to a very small number-often only three or four. By this means each nurseryman is able to provide flowers for stated purposes either in mixed colours or in masses of some stipulated colour. A large proportion of these roses are grown in glass-houses; the flowers have very long stems, and the petals are undamaged by wind, but the cost of production is high and so is the retail price. Roses grow easily out of doors in Australia, and I know of only one firm here that grows them in
glasshouses.
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