. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. Where Chicago Stood Fifty Years Ago. In August just a half century ago. according to acity census then taken. Chicago had a population of84,113 inhabitants. Eut for being so new a country,it might be supposed to figure somewhat in a floralway, as older cities wirh fewer inhabitants were atthat time known to do. In the city proper then, therewas one florist, if we may call him such, as he hada fifty-foot greenhouse out on West Lake street, op-posite what is now Union Park. Then
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. Where Chicago Stood Fifty Years Ago. In August just a half century ago. according to acity census then taken. Chicago had a population of84,113 inhabitants. Eut for being so new a country,it might be supposed to figure somewhat in a floralway, as older cities wirh fewer inhabitants were atthat time known to do. In the city proper then, therewas one florist, if we may call him such, as he hada fifty-foot greenhouse out on West Lake street, op-posite what is now Union Park. Then there was an-other florist, to the manner born, with another fifty-. Vibnrnum Opulus Oxyeoccos) in Fruit Basket of Begou ia Glolre de Lorraine; rower, SamuelMurray, Kansas City foot house in Hyde Park. The third was just overthe city limits, in Lake View, the north part ofwhich is now so noted as the growers or wholesalershome. Here good sized farms are covered with glass,and nearly all to supply Chicagos great centralwholesale market with cut flowers to-day. These three houses, fifty feet each, were glazed with7x9 glass, heated by the old-fashioned brick flue, andfilled with a mixed class of bedding out and windowplants. Is it not safe to say that even a beginning ofa florists Christmas had no existence at that time? My appearance on the scene was a few monthslater. I also commenced in a modest way, but wasall the time advancing; and I find in a diary kept atthat time thatby 1S64 the Christmas trade hadgrown and was thought worthy of record. It wasall told, $ Think of that, ye retail florists!who are counting on your coming Christmas trade!which
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