. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. loHN K. SHAW. John Kose could do it, others must doit, and there was ipiite a pilgrimage tohis place to see his plants, whicli hadyielded such flowers. Astonisliment grewwhen it was seen that his plants weregrown on shallow benches in five inchesof soil with only one and two flowers tothe plant. Tlie custom with the generalflorist was to grow his jilants in theHeld, bring into the house in Septemberand plant on a solid bench, then disbudto five or six blooms. This was the begi
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. loHN K. SHAW. John Kose could do it, others must doit, and there was ipiite a pilgrimage tohis place to see his plants, whicli hadyielded such flowers. Astonisliment grewwhen it was seen that his plants weregrown on shallow benches in five inchesof soil with only one and two flowers tothe plant. Tlie custom with the generalflorist was to grow his jilants in theHeld, bring into the house in Septemberand plant on a solid bench, then disbudto five or six blooms. This was the beginning of a wonderful development in Indiana and the in-terior, and ISDO saw a number of veryclose followers of Mr. Rose. New Ameri-can to Americanclimate and methods than the importedsorts, gave better material to workwith and the chrysanthemum becamea wonderful Hower, over which jieopieraved, and which they gladly paid tosee. Novelties sold readily at .> cts. each,as small plants on March 1, and goodblooms brought $3, f4 and 9^ perdozen. In 1890, Harry Widener was perhapsthe premier no
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