After work with roses for more than half a century and 45 class of service at Royal de Ruiter , Piet Maas withdraw yesterday . He started at the age of twelve , find fault blush wine at a grower for 50 penny an hr ( ' 60 cents if you did it properly ' ) , he calibrate as a rose expert , and for many years , he has been one of the faces at the fallal of De Ruiter .
Piet went to a technical school and stayed with a grower . " I could do a peck of hours , which I really liked " , he says . " In March ' 76 , I part at Anton Pouw , who farm Sonia ’s , one of the most popular roses at that time . He was a large grower with his 6.5 hour angle caller . At that time , no lighting was used and the craw was planted in the ground . Particularly in the summertime , we did farsighted days , as we jump bunching the flowers at 5 am and then moved on to harvesting . We often stay till about 9 pm . But all in all , we made good money , as rosebush were a very profitable harvest , and we express joy a passel . "
From production to breedingIn the 80s , Pouw started to cooperate with De Ruiter . The agriculturalist establish Madelon first , a reddish rose that became very pop . They were quenched with the cooperation and a show greenhouse was opened at the nursery , where several codes of De Ruiter were tested . " I started to take care of the rose in this glasshouse " , he continue .
" Regarding the harvest , Pouw shifted slightly from pink wine to potted industrial plant . In 1989 , De Ruiter was taken over and Pouw keep expanding . The combination of Pouw and De Ruiter became a successful one in the rosaceous industriousness . One of the best vendor at that fourth dimension was First Red , more or less the successor of Madelon , a upright variety that has been found a lot next to the popular mixed bag like Vivaldi and Prophyta . "
In the year that followed , they moved to unlike locations , end up at the Meerlandenweg in Amstelveen , where the company is still base . Also , Piet moved and over the last six , seven years , he worked at the location in Amstelveen where he , together with his colleague Marco Carels and Arjen Vlasman , took forethought of ( the presentation of ) the new variety of De Ruiter .
Happy at work"I always exploit in good concord with everyone " , Piet say . " I always went to figure out with a smiling on my cheek . Of course , the employment has exchange completely . There used to be many more growers , and you figure them much more often . There used to be more option , both for good and for worse . The production itself has become much more professional ( ' you work with the instinctive light , it ’s awesome , you may hardly suppose that now ' ) , the roses themselves have become much potent in terminus of tone , yield is now much high and the variety above all have much declamatory buds . "
The farewell is not quite as Pete visualize it . Because of heart pain and an process on his back he already had to stop working in March . Now the pain in the neck is gone there , but it ’s coming back in other blank space . " That ’s still a struggle , hopefully they ’ll find what it is soon . Now I can walk or bicycle a few meters and have to sit down again . Once that ’s screen out , " he reason optimistically , " I ’ll still derive for a cup of coffee , of course , and above all , I trust to be able to delight myself for a recollective time to come and to go out with my wife and our grandchild . "
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