. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 788 The American Florist. May 6, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. The greenhouse districts of Flatbush, Brooklyn, are rapidiy becoming sur- rounded by boulevards and handsome residences. Taxes on property are go- ing skyward every year and it is only a question of time when many of the old-time places will have to give way to the modern trend of the times, and dwellings will occupy the sites that now are covered with glass, for the land is getting too valuable for green- house purposes. With the building up of this secti
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 788 The American Florist. May 6, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. The greenhouse districts of Flatbush, Brooklyn, are rapidiy becoming sur- rounded by boulevards and handsome residences. Taxes on property are go- ing skyward every year and it is only a question of time when many of the old-time places will have to give way to the modern trend of the times, and dwellings will occupy the sites that now are covered with glass, for the land is getting too valuable for green- house purposes. With the building up of this section there comes an increase in the demand for plants and flowers, so that growers have no difficulty in disposing of all they can produce, for, aside from Dailledouze Bros, and Hen- ry Hession, both of which firms special- ize in carnations, the-Flatbush growers as a rule grow a little of everything, and, what is more to the point, they grow everything well. Take for instance the two establish- ments of Louis Schmutz, both are on Clarkson street, though about half a mile apart. We remarked to Mr. Schmutz, when going through them, that there were so many different kinds of plants that it was like visiting a "curiosity shop" for variety. "Well," he said, "what can we do, we got to have somethings of everythings," and sure enough he has It. , Tomatos, egg plants, peppers, cyclamen, honeysuckle, passiflora, vinca variegata, and rosea, cannas, coleus, geraniums, begonias Vernon and other bedding sorts, lem- ons, oranges, phlox, ferns of all the commercial types, in fact, a full list of all he has growing there would read more like a plant catalogue than any- thing else. W^e mention this just to show that all florists are not special- ists yet, the grower of mixed collec- tions is still filling an important place in the plant industry. Carl Woerner, at 220 Clarkson street, is also one who believes that in variety there is strength. This was formerly the W
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