Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . s, great andfeinall, of florists establishments in the suburbs of NewYork, all growing more or less of this popular summerflowering plant, it may be easily conceived that manymillions are planted annually. We can well note the in-crease of taste in the culture of flowers from this singleplant alone. Twenty years ago, when we grew 5,000Verbenas one year, we thought we would overstock themarket; but we did not, and the vast increase that hasbeen steadily made tends to no
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . s, great andfeinall, of florists establishments in the suburbs of NewYork, all growing more or less of this popular summerflowering plant, it may be easily conceived that manymillions are planted annually. We can well note the in-crease of taste in the culture of flowers from this singleplant alone. Twenty years ago, when we grew 5,000Verbenas one year, we thought we would overstock themarket; but we did not, and the vast increase that hasbeen steadily made tends to no such result. And it must HOW FLOWERS ARE GROWN. 105 not be forgotten that this is only one species of floweramong many hundreds grown. Next in numbers to theVerbena comes the Rose; of these perhaps half the num-ber is sold, but as the plant is more valuable, a far largeramount in money is realized. Twenty years ago, 50,000roses would have supplied all the demand for New Yorkmarket; it must now require millions. Figure 33 shows another phase of green-house culture—the growing of plants to produce cut flowers in Fig. 33.—POINSETTIA , This section shows a mass Poinsettia pulcherrima^ aaplanted in one of the green-houses. Each of thesetroi)ical-looking growths is about one foot in diameter,and of the brightest scarlet that it is possible to conceive;these are not, however, exactly flowers, but are bracts orouter leaves of the flower. They are in perfection just atthe holidays, and conduce more than any other flower togive the tables of our hospitable New Yorkers on NewYears Day a look of gorgeous elegance. In our green- 100 PRACTICAL FLOEICULTUEE. houses a space of 3,000 square feet is devoted to thisplant, and in briglit sunshine is presently a blaze ofscarlet that is perfectly dazzling. Fifrure 34 is a section of a Rose House, where the TeaRoses are being forced for their buds in winter. A spaceof 6,000 square feet of glass is devoted to this depart-ment,
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