. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 340 The American Florist. Nov. lo, St. Louis. The cut llowcr trade is brisk, with good prices. Chrysanthemums are coming in tine shape. The demand is tor large tlowers; if you have small ones you had iK'ttcr not send them. Young & Sons' chrysanthemum houses are a sight worth going miles to see. A dwarf plant of Mrs. E. D. Adams, the w-inner of the seedling prize last year, measures 5 feet 9 inches across and has 160 well formed flowers, many of them Zy inches across. This is a fine white variety, and is especi
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 340 The American Florist. Nov. lo, St. Louis. The cut llowcr trade is brisk, with good prices. Chrysanthemums are coming in tine shape. The demand is tor large tlowers; if you have small ones you had iK'ttcr not send them. Young & Sons' chrysanthemum houses are a sight worth going miles to see. A dwarf plant of Mrs. E. D. Adams, the w-inner of the seedling prize last year, measures 5 feet 9 inches across and has 160 well formed flowers, many of them Zy inches across. This is a fine white variety, and is especially adapted for pot culture. A standard of Charles Pratt. (J feet 0 inches high, with a head 4- Icet across showed forty-eight well formed flowers. Mr. Young is growing sixteen of last vcars' considers seven of them improvements on the old varieties. These will be grown more ex- tensively year. Among them arc Kdward Hatch, a good variety for pot culture, and Colonel Wm. B. Smith, Mrs. Maria Simpson, yellow, Lilian Kusstll, Exquisite, pink, and John F. Miller. Mr. jolin .\rmsby, gardener to Mr. Kaufl'man, has some of the finest speci- mens of chrysanthemums we have ever seen. He will exhibit them at the show. He has several importations from Eng- land which have not been grown here before. One plant of Viviand-Morel measures i\-2 feet across each waj', and is a solid mass of large fine pink blooms; another plant of the same variety had blooms 0 inches in diameter. looses are coming fine. Mme. Pierre Guillot is being grown here in consider- able (|uautity for the first time this sea- son and is liked. Meteor is rapidly grow- ing into favor. Perles have done remarkably well this season; everyone has L'ood Perles. Mr. Young is growing The Ouccn; he thinks it superior to Niphecos. Beauties grow to perfection here. The Botanical Garden has just received a fine specimen of the Giant cactus (Cercus giganteus) from the southern plateau, vvlure it sometimes grows
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