. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. luG The American Florist. Aug. 14, Geeen Bay, Wis.—Considerable im- provements are to be made to the structure at Chas. DeClerc's store at Adams and Walnut streets. Mr. De Clerc will also equip the interior with a new ice-box and all the latest im- provements in store fittings. He has recently completed a new greenhouse 60x235 feet, making 42,000 feet of glass in all. white throat; Bonnie, red; and Mrs. Donaldson, white with purple lines. A new strain soon to be offered by E. A. Kunderd of Indiana will be a decide
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. luG The American Florist. Aug. 14, Geeen Bay, Wis.—Considerable im- provements are to be made to the structure at Chas. DeClerc's store at Adams and Walnut streets. Mr. De Clerc will also equip the interior with a new ice-box and all the latest im- provements in store fittings. He has recently completed a new greenhouse 60x235 feet, making 42,000 feet of glass in all. white throat; Bonnie, red; and Mrs. Donaldson, white with purple lines. A new strain soon to be offered by E. A. Kunderd of Indiana will be a decided acquisition. The petals are rufiied or waved in the most beautiful manner; nor is this its only charm. The colors are so beautiful that the varieties would be well worth introducing it not ruffled. It will be interesting to notice how some other growers will try to belittle these new arrivals, the result of years of careful work. The gladiolus is easily the most pop- ular of our summer flowers, and it has become so in spite of a good deal of opposition. It is too easily grown; it needs neither a glass house nor skilled labor; but, notwithstanding all objections, it furnishes the working- man and his family with most beauti- ful flowers during the summer months at a nominal cost. It is here to stay. Nature. Ed. Amebican Florist;— "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is ; It is a remarkable coincidence that in the same number of the Ameeican Florist appear a plea for a little more nature and a sarcastic piece of poetry about a natural park policeman. Of course he may have given away the city's property, but it matters not what he did, what he thought is what counts. A good many flowers are given lawfully and ostenta- tiously, others go to waste ignomin- iously; business is business. If the policeman just gave the flowers away with a good conscience to someone who took them in the same spirit then the whole transaction is clean and honest —natural. We may speak
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