The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . u E. Veyrat Hermanos Mar^chal Niel Francois Crousse M. Desir Gloire de Dijon Noella Nabonnand Grossherzog E. Ludwlg Souv. de Viennot. Prom The Garden, London, Eng. Rose Growing. The growing of roses as an industry has, duringthe last twenty-five years, assumed proportions inthis country beyond what the wildest dreams of thosewho were engaged in the business at the beginningof that period would faintly indicate. It may be saidthat in all other branches of horticulture there hasa
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . u E. Veyrat Hermanos Mar^chal Niel Francois Crousse M. Desir Gloire de Dijon Noella Nabonnand Grossherzog E. Ludwlg Souv. de Viennot. Prom The Garden, London, Eng. Rose Growing. The growing of roses as an industry has, duringthe last twenty-five years, assumed proportions inthis country beyond what the wildest dreams of thosewho were engaged in the business at the beginningof that period would faintly indicate. It may be saidthat in all other branches of horticulture there hasalso been extraordinary advancement in that time,but there is little doubt that rose growing as a busi-ness has progressed out of proportion to all otherlines, with the possible exception, during the lastdecade, of carnations. Of necessity during the time mentioned manychanges have taken place in the methods of grow-ing and marketing, as well as in the varietiesgrown; but it is rather singular that, with the greatadvance made in the production of roses, varietieshave changed so little; and it is also somewhat as-. Rose Gruss an TeplitzPhoto by W. H. Walte tonishing that no good yellow rose has been pro-duced to take the place of and be an improvementon Perle des Jardins. New varieties of teas andhybrid teas have appeared in great numbers in thattime, some of them perhaps better than the oldersorts. It is scarcely twenty-five years, I think, sincethe Bride was introduced (if I recollect aright, asport from Catherine Mermet); but it is here a longtime, and remains the best white of its class grown. The American Beauty has been, since its dis-covery as a rose adapted for forcing, in a class byitself, unapproachable in beauty and magnificence,as well as in its command for profitable we are on the special subject of this grandrose, I may say that it has often occurred to methat it has been in a great measure responsiblefor the immense establishments now devoted to roseg
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