. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. May 29, 1913. The Florists^ Review 13 1 4#. ^ ^- Pi^ hiiii ^1 11'' (^ i / t •. > • '»rf/i- ar'^ / Caraatioos on Concrete Benches at Bird Forrest's, Waxahachie, Tex. MODERN PLANT IN TEXAS. Eight years ago, Bird Forrest, then a prosperous contractor and builder of Waxahachie, Tex., put up a small green- house, 14x48 feet, for the purpose of jnaking a little money on the side, as he expresses it. Today he is one of the successful growers of the south, having a modern plant under more than 25,000 feet of glass. He now devotes all of his attention to
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. May 29, 1913. The Florists^ Review 13 1 4#. ^ ^- Pi^ hiiii ^1 11'' (^ i / t •. > • '»rf/i- ar'^ / Caraatioos on Concrete Benches at Bird Forrest's, Waxahachie, Tex. MODERN PLANT IN TEXAS. Eight years ago, Bird Forrest, then a prosperous contractor and builder of Waxahachie, Tex., put up a small green- house, 14x48 feet, for the purpose of jnaking a little money on the side, as he expresses it. Today he is one of the successful growers of the south, having a modern plant under more than 25,000 feet of glass. He now devotes all of his attention to the business, which was managed by his wife at its inception, while he directed building operations. Since he decided to abandon con- tracting for growing, he has constantly improved and added to his plant, which lias concrete walls and benches, and iron frame, cypress and red cedar roof material. The office, 16x45, and the potting shed, 16x85 feet, are built of cement blocks. The office and sales- room have a metal ceiling and cement floor. The side wall on the greenhouse side is of glass, affording plenty of light and showing his ferns and bloom- ing plants to advantage. The green- houses are wide and high, as the ac- companying illustrations show. Last year Mr. Forrest had 12,000 car- nations benched and 5,600 mums, as well as numerous other plants. He now lias 30,000 carnation plants in the field for his own use and for the trade. He handles a wholesale as well as retail business. In summer he grows ferns in 8-inch and 10-inch pans in the space vacate<l by bedding plants. He attrib- utes much of his success to the aid given him by his wife, who has been a factor in the business from the start. ALLAMANrAS. Those useful summer flowering plants, the allamandas, will now prob- ably be showing flower and should be fed liberally with litjuid manure while ill bloom, in pots the Aariety William- sii is fine and is in much favor at New- port aner- son using it, and should,
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