. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igos. The American Florist. 327 dinary free blooming tendency and brilliant color which looks like a ?win- ner. Another seedling originating in the establishment is a variegated Law- son, now in fine shape, and of which a small stock has been disseminated this year. This variety appears to be a very free bloomer, stout in stem, and has a large, full flower. Of standard varieties the most inter- esting is a couple of benches of Wolcott. MARKET GARDENS. Prices of Indoor Vegetables. Prices of indoor vegetables at lea
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igos. The American Florist. 327 dinary free blooming tendency and brilliant color which looks like a ?win- ner. Another seedling originating in the establishment is a variegated Law- son, now in fine shape, and of which a small stock has been disseminated this year. This variety appears to be a very free bloomer, stout in stem, and has a large, full flower. Of standard varieties the most inter- esting is a couple of benches of Wolcott. MARKET GARDENS. Prices of Indoor Vegetables. Prices of indoor vegetables at lead- ing points March 11 were as follows: New York, cucumbers. No. 1, $ to $ per dozen; No. 2, $ to $ per case; lettuce, 75 cents to 90 cents per dozen; mushrooms, 25 cents to 65. MUSHROOMS GROWN UNDER GREENHOUSE BENCH. This carnation appears to do particu- larly well here, the benches almost a solid mass of bloom and bud, the blooms perfect in shape and with good calyxes. Other varieties to be seen are Scott, Enchantress, Mrs. T. W. Lawson, Pros- perity, and Harry Fenn, all showing excellent cultivation. While most of the houses are used for carnations, there is a fine house of sweet peas to com- mand attention. The blooms are pink and white in color, very bright and with long stems. Between the rows the space is used for geraniums. Begonias. It was mainly due to the enthusiasm and achievements of the late John Laing in England that for twenty-five years or more, interest in begonias (tuberous begonias especially) never diminished in that country, and this fact seems much plainer now to many who realize that the cause of the neg- lect of begonias during the last year or two is attributable to the absence of one who labored long and hard and suc- cessfully to keep them to the front there and also here. It might be expected that losing the fostering care of their champion, pro- tector, and in some degree their origi- nator, begonias would suffer tem- porarily, but
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