. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igoj. The American Florist. 801 )n tho best coiiimerclal varieties nml though ninny now ones are on trial—In fact arc tried every year—there are tow that como up to the high standard aet. Alice Byron Is very fine hero, tho prettily Incurved flowers ot a puro dead white In one house being Just at their best. Golden Woddlng Is also largely grown. Monrovia. Borsman, October Frost and other early varieties were past their best at the time of our visit, but Timothy Eaton, Yellow Eaton, IlallUlay, Clementine Touset and
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igoj. The American Florist. 801 )n tho best coiiimerclal varieties nml though ninny now ones are on trial—In fact arc tried every year—there are tow that como up to the high standard aet. Alice Byron Is very fine hero, tho prettily Incurved flowers ot a puro dead white In one house being Just at their best. Golden Woddlng Is also largely grown. Monrovia. Borsman, October Frost and other early varieties were past their best at the time of our visit, but Timothy Eaton, Yellow Eaton, IlallUlay, Clementine Touset and a bronze tinted yellow called Lovely wero all looklnB well. Laurent Is a fine thing with stiff, erect stems, pink when opening but bfooming pure white as the flowers mature. It reminds ouf somewhat of the old EtoUe de Lyon but without Its coarseness. Faubert is pretty, a loose petalled bronze with yellow reverse, but It is doubtful whether It will stand the commercial test. Golden Dome, a sport from Eaton, has fine colored yellow flowers, but it appeared to us even longer in the neck than T. Eaton. The ever popular Col. Appleton is well done and there are flne benches ot Jeanne Nonin coming on that look like being right for Thanksgiving. In the packing shed there was a flne lot of flowers. Largo tubs are used filled with water and a light fence around these holds the flowers in place and at the same time protects them. This is a very good idea that may be followed with ad- vantage. What may be termed the mechanical end of the business is well looked after. Steam is used for heating the immense area of glass. We saw nine very large boilers and the under-feed system of stoking automatically is used. Two large steam engines are used for pumping the water for use in the houses from an well 300 feet deep. To supply steam 14,000 tons of coal are used annually and the whole of the steam fitting and repairs are carried out by the firm's own men. The liquid manure is also
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