. Dingee guide to rose culture. Di^geeGuide To Rose Qjltvre greenhouses, all as neat as wax. Every inch of bench space was taken up by thrifty plants, chiefly E-oses, all growing on their own roots, and reflecting that vigorous green that comes only of perfect plant health. 'We have in stock not less than a thousand varieties of Roses alone,' continues Mr. Parker, 'and are constantly adding more. Many of the best standard varieties originated and were introduced by us, such as Helen Gould, Mrs. Robert Peary, Golden Gate, Marion Dingee, Virginia, Henry M. Stanley, and others, but our greatest t
. Dingee guide to rose culture. Di^geeGuide To Rose Qjltvre greenhouses, all as neat as wax. Every inch of bench space was taken up by thrifty plants, chiefly E-oses, all growing on their own roots, and reflecting that vigorous green that comes only of perfect plant health. 'We have in stock not less than a thousand varieties of Roses alone,' continues Mr. Parker, 'and are constantly adding more. Many of the best standard varieties originated and were introduced by us, such as Helen Gould, Mrs. Robert Peary, Golden Gate, Marion Dingee, Virginia, Henry M. Stanley, and others, but our greatest triumph is yet to come, for we will introduce in 1909 the most beautiful and best of all garden Roses, yet unnamed.' [This variety originated by Mr. Parker now bears the name Charles Dingee.] Mr. Parker added, "We are always looking out for and propagating new varieties, for fashions change in Roses as they do in everything else. Down the center of one of the big packing sheds half a dozen men were busily cutting up Rose branches into three-inch pieces. This is how it looked, but closer inspection showed each cutting carefully clipped at an angle just below the 'joint' of the parent stem. Off to a specially constructed propagating green- house were the cuttings carried, where in long, spotlessly clean, white beds of moist river sand they were inserted by the chief propagator, who, by the way, can plant 10,000 cuttings a day. "With the flood of mail orders that begins in February, ruthless hands begin to strip the houses and cast aside the pretty blooms that appear. So it seemed to the scribe. In the principal or main packing shed, scores of busy hands assemble the plants, which, when removed from their pots, wrapped in damp moss, labeled and packed in neat mail and express packages, are ready for dispatch- ing to the host of distant, waiting customers. As an evidence of the amount of business done, it is known for this firm to have sent by mail alone over a ton per day
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