. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. , r-^'.-w'it^y- ^^^^Z^-^*' 50 The Florists' Review NOVKMBEK 1«, 1922. HOW BRITAIN GROWS THEM. Market at Covent Garden. Carl EngL'lmann, of .Suffroii Walden, Kiigland, who recently made an ex- tended tour of carnation establishments in the United States and Canada, fol- lowing the F. T. D. convention in Bal- timore, and while he was the guest of S. J. Goddard, Framinghani, Mass., attended the annual meeting of the Boston Flower Exchange, Inc., favored the members with a talk on carnation growing in England. Before speaking on carnations, Mr. Engelma
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. , r-^'.-w'it^y- ^^^^Z^-^*' 50 The Florists' Review NOVKMBEK 1«, 1922. HOW BRITAIN GROWS THEM. Market at Covent Garden. Carl EngL'lmann, of .Suffroii Walden, Kiigland, who recently made an ex- tended tour of carnation establishments in the United States and Canada, fol- lowing the F. T. D. convention in Bal- timore, and while he was the guest of S. J. Goddard, Framinghani, Mass., attended the annual meeting of the Boston Flower Exchange, Inc., favored the members with a talk on carnation growing in England. Before speaking on carnations, Mr. Engelmann spoke on the great Covent Garden flower market in London. He said the area devoted to flowers there would be about the same as in the pro- posed new flower market in Boston. It is in an exceedingly busy and congested part of the great metropolis, he said, and parking spaces are not so good in Boston. There is a special building for the sale of foreign bulbous and other flowers and another for fruits. The market opens at 5 a. m. and closes at 9 a. m.; during the .summer it is not open daily. Practically all stalls are occupied by commission men and not growers as here. A government tax of 2 cents is levied on each box of flowers sent in either to the market or to the retailers. This seems a trifling sum, l)ut soon amounts to a good deal where sev- eral hundred boxes are sent in daily. He sends liis own (lowcis liy van over the road daily, a distance of forty-five miles. Ijondon a Center. Nearly all the growths m-ar the big provincial cities send their cuts to ('ovent Garden rather than to nearby markets, as they are sure of an outlet there, and .-ill over Cireat Brit- ain send there, as they .'ire sure of be- ing able to sei'ure what they need. I'lowers from Scotland and the north of England often go to London and are shij)i>ed back to ni'ar whrrc they were grown. Wlien Mr. ?;ngelni;iiin left Eng- land, good disbudded ojirii iiir-grown clirysantlieniunis wholes
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