. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. I go I. The American Florist. 193. RUBBER PLANTS ON A CHICAGO CITY LOT. pow showing so many buds that it looks as though the crop would be tremendous by the time the first frost comes, and the stems will be of the longest and strongest; that's the chief characteristic of the variety here. Bride and Bridesmaid are also done well and already there is a pretty fair cut of good quality of these sorts. During the past season Brant & Noe maintained a wholesale store at Minne- apolis, but it has served their purpose
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. I go I. The American Florist. 193. RUBBER PLANTS ON A CHICAGO CITY LOT. pow showing so many buds that it looks as though the crop would be tremendous by the time the first frost comes, and the stems will be of the longest and strongest; that's the chief characteristic of the variety here. Bride and Bridesmaid are also done well and already there is a pretty fair cut of good quality of these sorts. During the past season Brant & Noe maintained a wholesale store at Minne- apolis, but it has served their purpose and they will this season go back to the meihod formerly practiced of marketing their cut direct from the greenhouses. They employ the rather unusual practice among rose growers of taking on a sufii- cient number of out of town buyers to take up their cut and make them regular all season shipments. In mid-summer there is little doing and the cut is small. Louis M. Noe, the non-resident member of the firm, who is among the New Jersey rose growers who have contributed to the fame of Madison, writes that this has been a good summer with him. He says that better Beauties than are usual in August have been cat and that prices have been well up on the better grades. Both members of the firm are looking forward to a prosperous season. Dictamnus Caucasicus. This fine fraxinella is, probably cor- rectly, considered to be only a form of the typical D. albus, but its superior vigor and greater stature, as well as its larger flowers, make one see some force in the other varietal name it bears—that of giganteus. Its color is that of the ordinary D fraxinella of old days, which I take to be the same as that called in -the "Kew Hand-list" D. albus var. pur- pureus, but the larger size of the blooms and the longer and taller spikes on which they are produced make it a more effect- ive border flower. It shares with the ordinary forms the peculiar property of exhaling an inflammable
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