. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 376 The American Florist. Sept. ig, Hardy phloxes, larkspurs, coreopsis, drangeas, a few gladioli, aud the like are also grown. In the background of our view are seen three modern greenhouses, devoted almost exclusively to single vio- lets and pansies. The cut of both in- door and outdoor flowers is consigned to the J. B. Deamud Co., Chicago, Mr, Swenson was born in 1844 not far from Guttenburg, Sweden. In Gut- tenburg he completed a five years' hor- ticulture course. In 1872 he came to America, becoming a ga
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 376 The American Florist. Sept. ig, Hardy phloxes, larkspurs, coreopsis, drangeas, a few gladioli, aud the like are also grown. In the background of our view are seen three modern greenhouses, devoted almost exclusively to single vio- lets and pansies. The cut of both in- door and outdoor flowers is consigned to the J. B. Deamud Co., Chicago, Mr, Swenson was born in 1844 not far from Guttenburg, Sweden. In Gut- tenburg he completed a five years' hor- ticulture course. In 1872 he came to America, becoming a gardener in Lin- coln park, Chicago, afterwards going to Garfield park which he helped to plant. In 1874 he became gardener to the late Marian U. Ogden. Fifteen years later he leased a plot of ground in Elmhurst where he successfully grew double vio- lets under glass, roses and a variety of outdoor flowers. Nearly 10 years ago he acquired possession of a part of the land he now cultivates and which he then worked in connection with the other place. About five years ago he moved into the house shown in our picture, ex- tended his holding somewhat and concen- trated his attention on the one place. Attractive Grounds Around Greenhouses. Nothing strikes the foreign visitor to American greenhouse establishments so much as the general disregard to attrac- tiveness or even tidiness about the grounds and approaches. Many of the large, and small, places are run up in a hurry, and where grading has been done the foundations are never even filled in; odd building materials are left lying around, and there they remain until a crop of indigenous weeds springs up and mercifully hides them. Soil is thrown out from the benches, and this. also, remains until covered with wild vegetation, and pots, manure, oddments of lumber and iron are scattered around in anything but an attractive manner. There are, of course, plenty of excep- tions to this. Many greenhouse estab- lishments are surrounded with
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