. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CO.'S FIRST PRIZE VASE RICHMOND ROSES AT CHICAGO SHOW. on an acre of ground, if properly cul- tivated, would produce about nine tons of fruit annually at very little expense. At the rate of only £10 per ton (a shade over 2 cents a pound) a revenue of £90 an acre per annum is not to be despised in these days. As the plants are best grown by training to horizontally stretched wires, it would of course be possible to secure catch crops of vegetables from be- tween the rows, thus raising the gross retur
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. CO.'S FIRST PRIZE VASE RICHMOND ROSES AT CHICAGO SHOW. on an acre of ground, if properly cul- tivated, would produce about nine tons of fruit annually at very little expense. At the rate of only £10 per ton (a shade over 2 cents a pound) a revenue of £90 an acre per annum is not to be despised in these days. As the plants are best grown by training to horizontally stretched wires, it would of course be possible to secure catch crops of vegetables from be- tween the rows, thus raising the gross returns to a much higher figure Sweet the Royal Horti- cultural Society's Show in the summer of 1912 there were several A™ ex- hibits of sweet peas, notably those from Sutton & Sons, Reading, and ^lor^Tdv^ge18t-ea>ex- n-bitors will at once recognize of the g^trikmg0 varies " Dorothy most striking: v deep mauve; Tennant Spencer, ^^ and Prince George, a finer»'e™ saim0n; cerise; , rose and ^^ Southcote Blue, ^ a h :Lhizz^z:tt -- —r" ^ra^ne^StirpaS larlV long stems; Thomas Stevenson c«tee; Earl Spencer, a beautiful bright warm salmon rose color; and Moonstone, one of the sweetest and softest lavender blues. In — King s collection were to be noted the new Anglian Pink, a fine cerise pink; Anglian Light Blue, deep lavender; Anglian Crimson, deep crimson with largely in them in the spring as "roots" but also among the trade who deal and during the summer as cut flow- ers. Single and double varieties seem to be about equally popular, and the individual blossoms of some varieties are now nearly 3 inches across. One such is "Drake" shown by Kelways, and it received an award of merit. It is a beautiful Cambridge blue with conspicuous small white petals in the center. Another new variety shown by the same firm is "Tagalie" (the name of the Derby winner) which also received an award of merit. It is just the oppo
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