. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo2. The American Florist. 575 THE S. A. r. AND THE SOUTHEAND. ASHBVILLB, THE CONVENTION CITY. It appears that the northern idea of Asheville is somewhat indistinct and oddefined. The S. A. F. convention of 1902 will not be held in a typical south- ern city, nor is that section of country at all like the sunny south, as most northern people picture in their imagination. Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level and fully 300 miles from salt water. We are on a broad plateau in the Blue Ridge mountains, the spot
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo2. The American Florist. 575 THE S. A. r. AND THE SOUTHEAND. ASHBVILLB, THE CONVENTION CITY. It appears that the northern idea of Asheville is somewhat indistinct and oddefined. The S. A. F. convention of 1902 will not be held in a typical south- ern city, nor is that section of country at all like the sunny south, as most northern people picture in their imagination. Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level and fully 300 miles from salt water. We are on a broad plateau in the Blue Ridge mountains, the spot made famous as the "land of the ; We have no sandy lands up here, neither do we grow cotton or cane. We have cold weather in winter and warm weather in summer, the same as yon have in Chicago and New York, but we don't go to such extremes. The climate is equa- ble and delightful, the nights are al- ways cool and our hoteli are patronized by the best class of pleasure seekers, both summer and winter. Our princi- pal products are ^rn, wheat, oats and tobacco. There are three commercial and one semi-commercial fio- risti' establishments in Asheville. The Battery Park green- houses have about 4,000 feet of glass, where they grow the bedding and decora- tive plants used in and around the Bat- tery Park Hotel, besides some roses and carnations and very fine violets for the trade. Paul Embler is in charge of this place. E. E. Brown is proprietor of the Brownhurst Greenhouses on Oak street. He has about 6,000 feet of glass and grows a full line ot bedding plants, also roses, carna- tions and violets. Connelly's is a pri- vate place of about 4,000 feet of glass, but the gardener, Ernest Kerstein, sells what the family does not use. He grows carnations, bedding and pot plants and also the best violets ever seen in this city. The Idlewild Floral Company has 13,000 feet houses of carnations,one of roses and two of miscellaneous stock. Some violets are grown in
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