It also may describe the latest boxing or shipping standards and list floral holidays. Many local libraries can supply addresses and sometimes copies of the above or other publications that discuss foliage plants. Local newspapers and general magazines often provide indications of trends in foliage plant decoration. The NAL's Horticulture Information Center can provide potential entrepreneurs with a bibliography. If plant growers make interstate shipments of plants and soil, they must remember State and Federal plant quarantine laws.
Penalties apply to violators.
Marketing foliage and foliage plants is basic to success, as indicated by Koranski. If beginning entrepreneurs can find a large floral retailer or jobber with whom to become associated as a supplier of plants, they will have solved some marketing problems. Sometimes growers also can find retail florists who have a need for seasonal plants such as forsythia, forced peach blossoms, spirea, and pussywillows, to mention a few, as well as plants such as ferns that are used the year round. A grower also might work out a sales arrangement with the owner of a local store with a large parking lot where plants can be displayed. With fresh items, they also may avoid the problem of selling plants at 1970 prices.