The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . bility toproduce good flowers with strong stems in satisfac-tory quantities as grown by the average florist. Thesetwo are Mrs. Thos. W. Lawson and Enchantress, andthe florists of the Rocky Mountain rfgion all take offtheir hats to Peter Fisher. White T^awson Is just assatisfactory as the original pink, but the short stemearly in the season is an objection to both. Harlow-arden has been quite satisfactory, but the demand forthat color is small. Fiancee has proved a wonderfullyfi
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . bility toproduce good flowers with strong stems in satisfac-tory quantities as grown by the average florist. Thesetwo are Mrs. Thos. W. Lawson and Enchantress, andthe florists of the Rocky Mountain rfgion all take offtheir hats to Peter Fisher. White T^awson Is just assatisfactory as the original pink, but the short stemearly in the season is an objection to both. Harlow-arden has been quite satisfactory, but the demand forthat color is small. Fiancee has proved a wonderfullyfine grower and blooms freely, but she has been onone protracted bust since October, and unless shemends her ways we will refuse to give her lodging-next year. The region we are considering includes an areaabout as large as ninety states the size of Massachu-setts, yet the latter has nearly twice as many peopleand six times as murli glass within her borders asare contained in all this vast region. Denver Is nowbut forty-two years old and Is about one-third thesize of Bnston; Snlt T^akc is about the size of Spring-. field; Butte and Pueblo about as large as Holyokc;Cuiorado Springs and Ogdcn will compare with FiLeli-burg, while Clieyenne, Wyoming, Helena and GreatFalls in Montana, and Cripple Creek in Colo-rado are in size between such cities as Pittsfield andNewburyport in this state, liy the census of lituu,there were only twenty-two cities and towns in theRocky Mountains with a population of 5,000 or over,while Massachusetts had nearly eighty in the list. The last census showed that Colorado had more tliantwo-thirds of the glass In the mountain region andsince then two or three important places have beenerected. Important additions have also been made atSalt Lake and at Butte. Small establishments withfrom one to five thousand feet of glass have beenstarted at many points in the mountains and I look fora still further increase in places of that kind. Atown of two or
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