. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgoi. The American Florist. 109. RANGE OF NEW ROSE HOUSES ERECTED BY JOHN BURTON, WYNDMOOR, PA. edly been watered and hoed, as have all the beds. They quickly made a start and for the past month have been a most pleasing bed. The varieties are good and are all colors indiscriminately mixed, which I believe is far prettier than amass of one color, at least in this old-fashioned plant. There have been so many disap- pointments in verbenas of late that it is gratifying to see a brilliant bed of such an old favorite.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgoi. The American Florist. 109. RANGE OF NEW ROSE HOUSES ERECTED BY JOHN BURTON, WYNDMOOR, PA. edly been watered and hoed, as have all the beds. They quickly made a start and for the past month have been a most pleasing bed. The varieties are good and are all colors indiscriminately mixed, which I believe is far prettier than amass of one color, at least in this old-fashioned plant. There have been so many disap- pointments in verbenas of late that it is gratifying to see a brilliant bed of such an old favorite. I would take this opportunity to say that in all this fifteen acres of flower gardening there is but one bed in the carpet bedding style, and that seems something out of place and is scarcely noticed, showing that the popu- lar taste no longer runs to that artificial style of gardening. The bed of cannas occupies a large oval 24x45 feet. The plants are set two feet apart each vi^ay, but they have already pretty well filled up. The varieties are Souvenir de Antoine Crozy, Madame Crozy, Florence Vaughan, President McKinley and Charles Henderson. They are planted in rows diagonally and the bed makes a fine appearance. Wm. Scott. WITH THE GROWERS. JOHN BURTON, WYNDMOOR, PA. When the history of the growing of cut flowers to be sold exclusively at whole- sale comes to be written, Wyndmoor will figure prominently in that history, because here it was in the month of May, 1880, that John Burton first drove stakes to mark the lines forthe first greenhouses ever built in this place, at that time known as Spring Village; and it is authoritatively stated that these were the first greenhouses built to be used exclusively for the purpose indicated. From present indications Mr. Burton has no occasion to regret having driven those stakes. In his first experiment at building Mr. Burton was careful to have the aspect of the greenhouses just right. With watch in hand he awaited the hour of twelve
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