. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CARNATIONS AT NIC. ZWEIFELS. NORTH MILWAUKEE, WIS. seen a certain variety producing won- derfully and an exceptionally fine grade of blooms. This most forcibly came to our mind when we visited the green- houses of Nic Zweifel at North Milwau- kee on New Year's day and looked at bendies of White Perfection that were before us. All of the varieties were in splendid condition, but we eould not help but compare these plants with some that we have seen in years past. Our own experience w-ith this variety was that it wa
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CARNATIONS AT NIC. ZWEIFELS. NORTH MILWAUKEE, WIS. seen a certain variety producing won- derfully and an exceptionally fine grade of blooms. This most forcibly came to our mind when we visited the green- houses of Nic Zweifel at North Milwau- kee on New Year's day and looked at bendies of White Perfection that were before us. All of the varieties were in splendid condition, but we eould not help but compare these plants with some that we have seen in years past. Our own experience w-ith this variety was that it was- almost impossible to get a large plant, it simply refusing to grow as the others did during the sum- mer, being more or less scraggly and with few blooming shoots when planted in. It would then produce the flowers on the shoots and it was a long wait before another crop of flowers would show. But here the plants are of ex- tra large size, full of the finest blooms- and with buds and shoots growing luxuriantly. It really seemed as we gazed on these benches that we at least had never seen them excelled, if we had ever seen them equalled. Some ten miles north of the business center of Milwaukee, but a .short w-ay beyond the city limits are located the houses of this most successful grower, and they were all in the pink of condi- tion, with an elegant crop of carna- tions for this season of the year. In eight houses, each 27x200 feet, of up- to-date construction, being of Moninger material with Garland iron gutters, are housed 50,000 carnation jilants, and to verify our opinion of the condition of them and the crop which they are pro- ducing, it can but be said that there tory were bo'th_ grown for scarlet, but the fornaer has won out and will be more largely next year in place of the latter. Beacon certainly was a glorious sight, the plants being very floriferous and the blooms of good size and color. Scarlet Glow and Bon- fire were both doing well and the lat- ter
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