. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ESTABLISHMENT OF SIDNEY HOFFMAN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Interior View of Recent Addition to Grcenliouses. supply his Commonwealth avenue store. The photographs are interest- ing as being taken just six years after Mr. Hoffman started in business. John Leach, Jersey City, N. J. John Leach is located at Garfield avenue and Stegman street, Jersev City, N. J., and until two years ago was associated with his brother Rob- ert at his Wilkinson avenue place. Mr. Leach, in addition to growing chrysanthemums and asparagus on a la
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ESTABLISHMENT OF SIDNEY HOFFMAN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Interior View of Recent Addition to Grcenliouses. supply his Commonwealth avenue store. The photographs are interest- ing as being taken just six years after Mr. Hoffman started in business. John Leach, Jersey City, N. J. John Leach is located at Garfield avenue and Stegman street, Jersev City, N. J., and until two years ago was associated with his brother Rob- ert at his Wilkinson avenue place. Mr. Leach, in addition to growing chrysanthemums and asparagus on a large scale for the New York mar- ket, makes a specialty of poinsettias in pans, and is making arrangements to have 2,000 pans for Christmas. Some of these are now in fine shape and, before being sent to market, will have small plants of Asparagus plumosus added, and the combination Robert Leach, Jersey City, N. J. Robt. Leach is located at Garfield and Wilkinson avenues, Jersey City, N. J., overlooking New York bay and the statute of liberty. Here at present he has 30,000 chrysanthe- mums in magnificent shape. He has already cut Golden Glow and oth- ers, and will have all the lead- ing varieties in season. Here also is bench after bench of Asparagus plumosus, which is cut in sprays and sold in bunches. The entire output of cut flowers is sold by John Young, 51 West Twenty-eighth street. New York. Mr. Leach is making prepar- ations to have 75,000 geraniums, 25,- 000 heliotrope and 50,000 other pot plants for the spring market. He is very much interested, in the fall plant market, which opened Saturday, September 25, and will have a fir;e lot of chrysanthemums in pans and pots for sale there. Mr. Leach has several hundred of these in magnifi- cent shape. At Des Plaines, HI. Quite a number of small growers are congregated in and about this town while the large plants of the Garlands and the fine new plant of Hoerber Bros., out by the Wisconsin Central tracks make up in the aggre- g
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